Dennis Coates

TL;DR: The authors found that failure to account for the self-selection of students into online or face-to-face sections biases toward zero the differential in TUCE scores between online and face to face students.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between professional sports franchises and venues and real per capita personal income in 37 standard metropolitan statistical areas in the United States over the period 1969 to 1994.

TL;DR: The authors explored the impact of professional sports teams and stadiums on employment and earnings in specific sectors in US cities and found that professional sports have a small positive effect on earnings per employee in one sector, amusements and recreation, and an offsetting decrease in both earnings and employment in other sectors, supporting the idea that consumer spending on professional sports and spending in other sector are substitutes.

TL;DR: This paper reviewed the empirical literature assessing the effects of subsidies for professional sports franchises and facilities and found that sports subsidies cannot be justified on the grounds of local economic development, income growth or job creation, those arguments most frequently used by subsidy advocates.

TL;DR: In this article, a consumer choice model of live attendance at a sporting event with reference-dependent preferences was developed, based on the "uncertainty of outcome hypothesis" (UOH) as well as fans' desire to see upsets and to simply see the home team win games, depending on the importance of the referencedependent preferences and loss aversion.