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• 2011

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

  Public Finance

  Economics

  University of Oklahoma

• 2007

  Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)

  Economics

  West Texas A&M University

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  Lock-in and team effects: Recruiting and success in college football athletics

  How important is recruiting to a football program’s success? While prior research has attempted to answer this question

  we utilize an extensive panel set covering 13 years of games along with a two-stage least squares approach to investigate the effects of recruiting on team success. This article also includes new control variables to account for omitted variable bias that prior work may have missed. We also split our sample to investigate whether recruiting displays heterogeneous effects across schools. Additionally

  we find evidence that the benefits of recruiting are driven by team-specific effects

  indicating that team success may be more heavily derived from the ability of teams to harness and improve their recruits than their ability to utilize each athlete’s raw abilities. This leads to important revelations regarding future research into both the value of recruits and what drives a football team’s success.

  Lock-in and team effects: Recruiting and success in college football athletics

  This research presents the results of a follow‐up survey to journal editors more than a decade after Enders and Hoover (Journal of Economic Literature 42(3):487–93). The original survey asked editors about their definition of plagiarism and known cases. This work investigates what

  if anything

  has changed in regards to how journal editors react to suspected plagiarism and if the definition of plagiarism has changed. In addition to surveying editors of economics journals

  we have surveyed many more editors

  including political science

  sociology

  and others

  to contrast differences that might exist. There is great variation within disciplines regarding the appropriate definition of plagiarism or punishments but fairly consistent agreement across disciplines.

  More on Plagiarism in the Social Sciences

  This paper examines distance‐based effects of the introduction of a National Basketball Association (NBA) team on establishment‐level sales. Using a unique micro dataset with precise geographic location information and industry detail

  we apply spatio‐temporal estimation strategies following Harger et al. and Ahlfeldt and Kavetsos. We build on the literature by focusing on sales activity

  a broad measure of economic activity

  for industries related to the NBA‐product. Our application considers the relocation of the NBA’s Seattle franchise (Supersonics) to Oklahoma City (Thunder). The results reveal spatially differentiated impacts that would be obscured using data aggregated over space or industry. Specifically

  food establishments exhibit increased sales and entertainment establishments exhibit decreased sales relative to establishments in the outer most ring of the study area.

  NBA Sweet Spots: Distance-based Impacts on Establishment-level Sales

  Lottery Revenue and Cross-Border Shopping: A Nation-Wide Analysis

  University of Oklahoma

  West Texas A&M University

  Zachry Industrial

  Inc.

  West Texas A&M University

  West Texas A&M University

  Assistant Professor of Economics

  West Texas A&M University

  Doctoral Student

  University of Oklahoma

  Labor

  Zachry Industrial

  Inc.

  West Texas A&M University

  Canyon

  TX

  Assistant Professor

  West Texas A&M University