Morphing Pressure into Success or Failure

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2016
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Haverford College. Department of Economics
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Pressure can lead some to excellence, or cause others to underperform. In this paper, I seek to explain whether pressure negatively or positively affects a college basketball player’s performance at the free-throw line, late in close games. With over a million observations of male college basketball free throws obtained from data scraped from ESPN.com (Toma, 2015), this paper analyzes how these college athletes perform in a pressurized scenario. Using player fixed effects, results show that during these pressurized periods, players shoot worse free throw percentages. Using OLS and player fixed effects, results show that male college basketball players shot worse by 1.6 percentage points. Additionally, upon interaction, results also show that players drafted into the National Basketball Association shot worse by 5.9 percentage points at the free throw line.
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