I wrote a short article for the Washington Post's "In Theory" blog and it was published today.  Here is the link.

When I read manuscripts submitted to or published in economic journals, it is not uncommon for authors to report the standard deviation of binary dummy variables (dummies with values equal ...

Growing income inequality may be one of the most important economic issues of the next several decades. Despite a growing concentration of income and wealth, however, it seems that no ...

From my local paper (The Mankato Free Press): In a setback for Mankato and North Mankato’s effort to extend their local sales taxes, a key legislator has stripped the regional ...

The demand for cupcakes keeps increasing and, along with it, the payout from playing a road game at a major college football program.  From the Columbia Daily Tribune: In November, ...

Just in time for March Madness we have two views on paying college athletes. The first is an excellent summary of the state of college athletics by Allen Sanderson and ...

The American Economic Association now has JEL classification codes for Sports Economics and subareas within the field.  Here are the codes: Z2  - Sports Economics Z20  - General Z21  - ...

The following is a guest post by Dr. Dan Kuester, the Director of Undergraduate Studies and the Roger Trenary Chair for Excellence in Economic Instruction at Kansas State University.  Dan and ...

President Obama's proposed budget to Congress presents a fairly strong challenge to Republicans. It redistributes income from the rich to the middle class often by eliminating loopholes that benefits the ...

Sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, doesn't it? However, both have significant concerns about what is arguably the most significant tax loophole for upper income earners - the ...