Overlooked in the indictments of top FIFA officials and continuing investigations into corruption in the bidding process for the 2022 World Cup is the harm to Major League Soccer from not having the event in the United States. Applying current data about MLS revenues to a concept studied by...

Indictments of top FIFA officials by the Department of Justice and ongoing investigations into corruption in the World Cup bidding process have intensified speculation about whether FIFA will strip the 2022 World Cup from the host Qatar Football Association (“QFA”) and instead award it to...

Courts expect plaintiffs in complex litigation to prove damages through sophisticated economic models using techniques like regression analysis. Courts in the Daubert era also scrutinize the assumptions underlying those models and sometimes exclude expert testimony because of dubious...

In this paper we study the relationship between individual happiness and self reported health status, using the Religion, Health and Young Emancipation ISSP survey for Uruguay in 2008. Probit estimates suggests that health status has the highest correlation with happiness. In order to control...

Colleges and universities routinely use evaluation scores to assess the quality of an instructor's teaching for purposes of promotion and tenure, and for merit raise allocations. This paper applies a feasible generalized least squares model to a panel of data from master's-level classes. We find...

Governmental and private investigations have generated evidence of corruption in the bidding process to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, which went to Qatar rather than the United States. One economic study has shown an increase in professional soccer attendance in European countries that host the...

This article examines whether a player's race affects his date of election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. If the election process exhibits biases against minority-race players, then they may be required to wait longer to be elected. The results show no evidence of racial discrimination...