“We chose fields that are pretty big and tend to have large numbers of older workers. It wouldn’t be surprising to find there is age discrimination for people trying to become NFL [National Football League] players,” quipped study co-author David Neumark, an economics professor at the University of California, Irvine and visiting scholar at the San Francisco Fed.

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