The COVID-19 pandemic shut down sporting events worldwide. Local policy makers and league officials face important decisions about restarting play, especially in professional leagues that draw large numbers of spectators to games. We analyze the impact of professional sporting events on local...

Prior research has used Glassdoor.com's five-star rating system to measure employee satisfaction and explore its relationship to stock returns. We demonstrate how, due to a 2012 internal Glassdoor.com policy change, this crowd sourced data suffers from abnormalities that limits its usefulness....

In 2022, Major League Baseball changed its rules to include the designated hitter position in both the American and National Leagues. Up until that year, designated hitters were only used by American League teams. This rule change creates an environment where half of a major sports league is...

Stop & Frisk, an aggressive policing tactic, was employed in New York City until a judge ruled it unconstitutional in 2013. This study uses variation in Stop & Frisk activity resulting from the ruling to estimate the tactic’s effect on property prices. Results indicate prices increased for...