On the importance of fixed effects over a short period of time when using sports data: a lesson from home advantage in alpine skiing

Research question The aim of this paper is to compare the effect of competing in a home country between a racer fixed effects model, which assumes a constant ability over the span of a racer’s career, and a racer per season fixed effects model, which has a more plausible assumption that ability may vary between the seasons.Research methods We use data on all 50,046 performances among men and 44,311 performances among women from all the top...