rents flow to women's sports and other men's sports and lead to increased spending on facilities, coaches' salaries, and … other athletic department personnel. Using complete roster data for every student-athlete playing sports at these schools in … collective bargaining agreements in professional sports leagues as a benchmark. We also discuss how our results help understand …

performance later. In this paper, we exploit high-frequency data on decision-making by Major League Baseball umpires to examine …

pitch type in Major League Baseball and whether to run or pass in the National Football League. We observe more than three … million pitches in baseball and 125,000 play choices for football. We find systematic deviations from minimax play in both … data sets. Pitchers appear to throw too many fastballs; football teams pass less than they should. In both sports, there is …

This paper analyzes the dynamics of prices in two online secondary markets for Major League Baseball tickets …

Instrumental variables (IV) estimation of a demand equation using time series data is shown to produce a weighted … average derivative of heterogeneous potential demand functions. This result adapts recent work on the causal interpretation of … market in New York City to estimate an average elasticity of wholesale demand for fresh fish. The weighting function …

Many interesting elements of supply and demand are starkly observable in professional athletics. Understanding … institutional arrangements, competitive balance and labor-management relations requires a basic understanding of sports labor … pay; relative versus absolute demand; competitive and cooperative interactions across firms (teams); factor substitutions …

importance of demand and supply-side factors in explaining the fall in trade. In particular, we decompose the fall in …

This is the first paper to investigate the determinants of the demand for medical care in the People's Republic of … characteristics and work conditions impact the demand for medical care. Income elasticity is around 0.3, indicating medical care is a … necessity. Medical care demand is price inelastic, and price elasticity is larger in absolute value for poorer households …

market. This paper examines the initial effects of the tax subsidy on the demand for health insurance using previously …