This paper makes a comparison between the use of social media and traditional Course Management System (CMS) discussion groups in fully online Microeconomic Principles courses. Students within the same sections of the classes were randomly assigned to a discussion forum in either Facebook or in...

This article describes a tutorial for learning to use Tableau Public, which is free, powerful, and widely used software for data visualization. Data literacy is an important component of undergraduate research projects. This paper introduces an exercise that teaches the fundamental Tableau...

This is a classroom activity using the free ESPN Fantasy Baseball platform to draft players and the Out of the Park software ($40) to simulate a baseball season. The activity enhances learning of economic concepts of marginal product and competitive balance. It also improves the data literacy...

Scheduling factors such as a visiting team playing a game back-to-back against a rested home team can affect the win probability of the teams for that game and potentially affect teams unevenly throughout the season. This study examines schedule inequity in the National Basketball Association...

In 2016, Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the San Francisco 49ers’ first preseason game, beginning a two-year period of league-wide anthem protests. The protests stopped being an on-field distraction when NFL owners and players reached an agreement on an anthem policy in 2018. This research...

The role of housing adjustment costs in influencing mobility decisions, and the relationship between these and housing demands is not well understood. Here we try to examine how changes in adjustment costs as well as in such demand factors as income, influence the decision of households to...