How important is recruiting to a football program's success? While prior research has attempted to answer this question, we utilize an extensive panel set covering 13 years of games along with a two stage least squares approach to investigate the effects of recruiting on team success. We also...

This paper presents a novel approach for analyzing spatially differentiated impacts of a variety of entertainment attractions, including professional sports venues, convention centers, destination retail, and mega-events. Public finding is often based on the potential for such projects to...

This paper empirically models the effect of distance on residential property values of three different types of services, fire, police, and emergency medical services. Interesting economic tradeoffs emerge as service station proximity provides both amenity and disamenity effects. Using an...