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Collective bargaining agreements in professional sports are known as some of the most lucrative and complicated contracts in the labor world.

So when the WNBA Players Association prepared to negotiate a new, potentially historic deal, they enlisted help from an unexpected source, a Nobel laureate.

Rachel Bachman is a senior sports reporter at The Wall Street Journal.

For Golden, her prize-winning research came from her interest in the transforming labor market of the 20th century.

Golden's involvement in the WNBA's contract negotiation started when Terry Carmichael Jackson, the executive director of the Players Association, cold emailed her asking for help.

To Jackson's surprise, Golden said yes.

The WNBA was one of many requests Golden received, but it piqued her interest.

It came at the right time for players.

Bachman says the league had gradually become more popular in recent years, and just as the league's contract was set to expire, there was a sudden shift.

So with an explosion in popularity and a Nobel laureate by their side, the players were able to negotiate something that has never been done before.

One of Golden's key contributions involved the players' benefits.

She collected roster data going back to the founding of the league in 1997 to create what's called a life table, something that calculates life expectancy.

Golden's only requirement when she agreed to consult the players was that she didn't get paid, which provided a degree of independence to her work.

As for the hundreds of other requests and invitations she received after winning the Nobel, she accepted only two others.

One was to appear on the NPR game show Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.

And the other was to throw out the first pitch at a Red Sox game.

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