The sports industry provides a seemingly endless set of examples from every area of
microeconomics, giving students the opportunity to study economics in a context that holds …

Abstract Major League Baseball umpires express their racial/ethnic prefer ences when they
evaluate pitchers. Strikes are called less often if the umpire and pitcher do not match …

Until recently, the position of quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) was not an
option for Black athletes. Today, many teams use Black quarterbacks, a development that …

If you are interested in sports or if you are a sports fan, you have probably heard at least
once in your life of Jacques Anquetil, Lance Armstrong, Mohammad Azharuddin, Ivan …

This article tests for the existence of nationality discrimination in the English professional
soccer league. Although wage equations have typically been used by labor economists to …

Prior studies have investigated consumer-based economic discrimination from a number of
contexts in the sport industry. This study seeks to further such a line of inquiry by examining …

The literature examining executive and upper management compensation has looked at a
variety of factors. Within sport, coaches are equivalent to these positions, with one of the …

We address potential racial bias by Major League Baseball umpires with respect to ball–
strike calls. We offer a number of econometric specifications to test the robustness of the …

Despite the common perception that African-American coaches face discrimination
obstacles, only two rigorous statistical studies exist that actually address the issue of racial …

Sports economics is now 65 years old, since Rottenberg's “The Baseball Players' Labor
Market”. This milestone coincides with the 20th anniversary of the Journal of Sports …