This paper examines the fixed and demand-based betting market for The English Premier League top scorer. This investigation involves a predictive model that aims to pin down the random element of odds movements across time. ...

Previous studies on the topic of the “Olympic Effect” and its impact on tourism reveal both positive and negative returns for host countries as well as unsuccessful bid host countries. The returns experienced, as explained ...

This paper investigates whether access to healthcare is a major factor affecting educational outcomes in Kenya. Using ordinary least squares and probit analysis, I estimate the impact of mosquito bed nets, health insurance, ...

This study examines wage differentials between men and women in the Las Vegas, Nevada casino resort industry. The majority of existent literature addressing wage differentials usually reaches the same conclusion: women ...

Patient ratings of drugs are regressed on doctor ratings and the severity of the patient's condition (measured with QALY) while controlling for demographic variables and xed e ects. Patient rating and demographic data was ...

This study explores the effects of long-term contracts in Major League Baseball on players’ performance. By predicting performance of individual players using past performance, among other variables, this paper measures ...

In a country with access to one of the cleanest municipal water supplies in the world, the proliferation of the bottled water industry in the past twenty years in the United States has had profound impacts on the environment, ...

This article uses two ordinary least squares regressions controlling for market characteristics, demographic characteristics, and health-consciousness in America’s 100 most populated cities from 1997 and 2007 to determine ...

This study analyzes the effects of terrorism on tourism in European countries and reaffirms previous literature that shows a statistically significant negative and lagged relationship between terrorism and tourism, while ...