<title>Abstract</title><italic>Fans of the National Basketball Association (NBA) have long considered the idea that NBA referees are biased in various ways, such as when certain "star players" benefit from so-called "phantom fouls" committed against them or are sheltered from calls against fouls they commit. Using two...</italic>

This paper introduces and applies an EM algorithm for the maximum-likelihood estimation of a latent class version of the grouped-data regression model. This new model is applied to examine the effects of college athletic participation of females on incomes. No evidence for an “athlete”...

The current article builds on Berri and Eschker's (2005) research on the impact of crunch time, or pressure-packed performance, in professional basketball by searching for changes in individual player performance near the end of the game. In this way, our study is similar to the study of Savage...

The current study examines the political economy of collegiate dating markets by employing institution-level data from the national colleges and universities included in U.S. News & World Report's Best Colleges 2012. This is a more comprehensive sample than has been used in previous studies and...

Recently, Artís, Ayuso, and Guillén (2002, "Journal of Risk and Insurance" 69: 325-340; henceforth AAG) estimate a logit model using claims data. Some of the claims are categorized as "honest" and other claims are known to be fraudulent. Using the approach of Hausman, Abrevaya, and Scott-Morton...