O'Brien and Lane (2018) examines the popular use of film industry incentives by US states to promote economic growth. The authors claim that their findings indicate the presence of incentives is positively associated with filming, industry employment, and new industry establishments, which is...

Georgia offers the most generous incentives for motion picture and video production in the United States, providing a tax credit of up to 30 percent of qualified expenditures for film and video production within the state. Though the tax credits represent a significant cost to Georgia's treasury...

In 2015, NCAA Division I schools were permitted to cover the “full cost of attendance” as a part of athletic scholarships for the first time. This policy change allowed schools to provide modest living stipends to its athletes. Each school has autonomy to set its cost-of-attendance allowance...

Past studies estimating the marginal revenue products of baseball players have assumed individual players' hitting performances to be independent of teammate spillovers. However, the baseball community's widely held belief in "protection" - that a good (bad) player can improve (diminish) the hit...

Economist Andrew Zimbalist (2022) recently released a report commissioned by the Atlanta Braves on the fiscal impact of Truist Park and The Battery Atlanta, which is highly critical of my report (Bradbury 2022c) that finds the stadium had a negative fiscal impact on Cobb County. In this reply, I...