In January 2007, Major League Soccer (MLS) announced that international soccer sensation David Beckham would be joining the league playing for the LA Galaxy. This paper examines Beckham’s effect on MLS ticket sales for the 2007 season. Depending on specification, our results indicate that...

A procedure for determining the effect of testletnonequivalence on the operating characteristics ofa testlet-based computerized mastery test (CMT) isintroduced. The procedure involves estimating theCMT decision rule twice-once with testlets treatedas equivalent and once with testlets treated...

Women do not receive the same property rights protections as men in many countries. Given the importance of sound property rights for economic growth, this inequality should have significant implications for growth. This paper provides a first test of the importance of women’s property rights...

This study presents a general method for estimating the classification reliability of complex decisions based on multiple scores from a single test administration. The proposed method consists of four steps that can be applied to a variety of measurement models and configural rules for combining...