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Title: Econometric Determinants of Residential Solar Development in the United States
Author: Thomas, Micah
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Renewable energy sources
Description: I perform a comprehensive econometric analysis of the demographic determinants of residential solar installations in the contiguous United States. The exponential growth of residential solar in the United States has been aided by declining compone...

Title: If You Win, They Will Come: Major League Baseball and the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis
Author: Pouler, Christopher
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Sports administration
Description: ABSTRACTThis paper extends the Knowles et al. (1992) paper titled "The Demand for Major League Baseball: A Test of the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis." The main research question is to replicate, and improve, the original paper using data from ...

Title: REDUCING ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
Author: Hamilton, Austin
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: This paper estimates the effect wage transparency had on Major League Baseballpitcher’s salaries in the mid to late 1980s. The paper implements a conventionalmethod of wage estimation as previously used in the literature. The data, in partare from...

Title: The Influence of Local Professional Sports Teams on Bureaucratic Productivity
Author: Readhead, William
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Public administration
Description: The correlation between state government output and the performance of local sports teams is used to assess the degree and direction of the relationship. The goal is to identify a nationally preferred sport using granular data (state level vs nati...

Title: Tradeoffs in the use of value-added estimates of teacher effectiveness by school districts
Author: Baxter, Andrew
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Education and state
Description: A new capacity to track the inputs and outcomes of individual students' education production function has spurred a growing number of school districts to attempt to measure the productivity of their teachers in terms of student outcomes. The use o...