Paper Title
On the Relative age Effect Among Olympic Medalists

Abstract
Examining data for ten Olympic Games held this century, we assess if the relative age effect exists for a sample of more than 4,400 observed medalists. Overall, we find that medalists competing in the summer games tend to be younger than those in the winter games, women tend to be younger than men, those who medal in judged and fight events tend to be younger than those in timed events while medalists in endurance and skill events tend to be older than those in timed events. We do not find a consistent pattern of a birth quarter effect among the medalists, even between winter and summer games. Medalists born the second quarter are more likely to win a gold medal than those born in the fourth quarter, women born in the first quarter are more likely to win gold than women born in the fourth quarter, and those competing in timed events born in the first three quarters are more likely to win gold than those medaling in timed events born in the fourth quarter. Keywords - Logitistic Model, Olympic Games, Negative Binomial, Relative Age Effect.