Trafficking in persons, defined as the buying and selling of individuals within and between countries for the express purpose of their exploitation, now affects all regions and most countries of the world. Over the past decade, there has been increasing international acceptance of the need for...

Models of dismissals of sports executives frequently ignore the development of expectations regarding performance. The author explores the interplay between these expectations and the coach's tenure by examining dismissals of college football head coaches from 1983 to 2006. Using a discrete-time...

Salary discrimination in MLB has largely been discarded as a research topic. However traditional quantitative methods (particularly least squares regression) have concentrated on the effect of race for the average player. If only a particular salary class of players are subject to...