Economics

Saharnaz Babaei Balderlou, Economics, co-authored the article "Balancing the scale: Investigating the effect of frontloading and backloading salary structures on teacher turnover" in Teaching and Teacher Education published on Oct. 20 by Elsevier. She and her coauthors find statistical evidence that offering higher pay early in a K-12 teacher’s career helps reduce turnover among new teachers, but this strategy is less effective for experienced teachers. They also find risks of increasing turnover if mid-career pay is not competitive, so effective salary structures should seek to balance competitive pay over both early and mid-career.

Submitted on: Oct. 22

Nabamita Dutta, Economics and Adam Stivers, Finance, co-authored the article "Opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship: Do linguistic structures matter?" in Small Business Economics published on Oct. 18 by Springer. The authors look at how differences in language structure affect international differences in entrepreneurship, distinguishing between necessity entrepreneurship (people pushed into starting businesses due to lack of employment opportunities) and opportunity entrepreneurship (people choosing to leave employment in pursuit of promising opportunities). The language a speaker uses has been shown to influence cognition, behavior, and the content of cultural information shared through time and generations. The authors find statistical evidence that language also influences the pursuit of opportunity entrepreneurship.

Submitted on: Oct. 21

Michael Haupert, Economics, authored the article "A Club Fit to Represent This City: The Origins of the Chicago White Stockings" in NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture published on July 26 by University of Nebraska Press. Today’s Major League Baseball team, the Chicago White Sox, started as the Chicago White Stockings in 1870. In this work, Dr. Haupert describes the lasting impact that founding White Stockings team executives William Hulbert and Albert Spalding had on improving the professional sport’s reputation, attendance, and profitability. More than 150 years later, Major League Baseball still resembles the league that Hulbert and Spalding formed. Their legacy is the multi-billion-dollar professional sports industry that exists today.

Submitted on: Sept. 16

Lisa Giddings, Economics, authored the article "Serena, Simone, and Semenya: After 50 Years, the Past, Present, and Future of Title IX" in Journal of Sports Economics published on Sept. 12 by Sage Journals. In this research, Dr. Giddings examines the history and evolution of Title IX; its impact on both male and female participation in sports; current issues facing intersex, nonbinary, and transgender athletes; and the impact of recent legislation on women of color.

Submitted on: Sept. 16

James Murray, Economics, authored the article "Fiscal policy reactions and impact over the labor income distribution" in Economic Analysis and Policy published on Sept. 1 by Elsevier. In this work, he examines a menu of potential economic stimulus policies and finds empirical evidence that the policies most effective for helping the lowest-income workers are even more highly effective for high-income workers. Therefore, the policies that best help low-income workers during recessions also worsen income inequality. He also finds the most effective policies are often the ones least used, while the least effective policies are most used.

Submitted on: Sept. 3