Clay Collins
@claycollins.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sport Management, University of Georgia. WVU Econ alum.
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Clay Collins
@claycollins.bsky.social
· Jan 9
Client Challenge
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A little late on the announcement, but I’m proud to announce my paper “Emotional Cues, Election Outcomes, and Intimate Partner Violence” has been published in the Eastern Economic Journal. Link below: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Physician–patient SES match improves low-SES health, reducing socio-economic health inequality. Just Accepted new paper by Ida Lykke Kristiansen @idalykkekr.bsky.social and Sophie Yanying Sheng zurl.co/R7Sx8
The Physician-Patient Match and Health Inequality
Abstract. This study explores the impact of primary care physicians’ childhood socioeconomic status (SES) on their patients’ health and socio-economic inequality in health. We measure physicians’ SES by their parents’ education and find that SES concordance decreases low-SES patients’ mortality substantially, while high- SES patients’ mortality does not depend on their physicians’ family background, resulting in a reduction in the SES-mortality gradient of 25%. SES concordance improves low-SES patients’ health by increasing care at the intensive margin, increasing detection of chronic conditions, and improving adherence to treatment. SES concordance elevates communication, fosters empathy and trust between physicians and low-SES patients.
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December 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Physician–patient SES match improves low-SES health, reducing socio-economic health inequality. Just Accepted new paper by Ida Lykke Kristiansen @idalykkekr.bsky.social and Sophie Yanying Sheng zurl.co/R7Sx8
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My article (with @bradhumphreys.bsky.social ) "Yes, There is an Economic Consensus That Professional Sports Facilities are Inadvisable Public Investments" is now published in Economic Development Quarterly. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
February 4, 2026 at 7:03 PM
My article (with @bradhumphreys.bsky.social ) "Yes, There is an Economic Consensus That Professional Sports Facilities are Inadvisable Public Investments" is now published in Economic Development Quarterly. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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📣Hi #EconSky! I am on the job market! 📣
My JMP builds a 20-year panel showing an after-school care reform increased university grad. rates. 🎓
The key: moving children from home 🏠 to care centers 🧑🧒🧒, where peer interactions shaped preferences and beliefs — not skills🧮.
For more: sevinkaytan.com
My JMP builds a 20-year panel showing an after-school care reform increased university grad. rates. 🎓
The key: moving children from home 🏠 to care centers 🧑🧒🧒, where peer interactions shaped preferences and beliefs — not skills🧮.
For more: sevinkaytan.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
📣Hi #EconSky! I am on the job market! 📣
My JMP builds a 20-year panel showing an after-school care reform increased university grad. rates. 🎓
The key: moving children from home 🏠 to care centers 🧑🧒🧒, where peer interactions shaped preferences and beliefs — not skills🧮.
For more: sevinkaytan.com
My JMP builds a 20-year panel showing an after-school care reform increased university grad. rates. 🎓
The key: moving children from home 🏠 to care centers 🧑🧒🧒, where peer interactions shaped preferences and beliefs — not skills🧮.
For more: sevinkaytan.com
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Happy to finally have this paper out now in JUE. It's open access.
Cell phone location data can reflect what's happening in illicit markets and well targeted narcotics enforcement efforts can reverberate regionally.
Anyways here's the link:
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Cell phone location data can reflect what's happening in illicit markets and well targeted narcotics enforcement efforts can reverberate regionally.
Anyways here's the link:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Identifying the general equilibrium effects of narcotics enforcement
I analyze the demand side impacts of a supply-side intervention into the market for illegal drugs in what has been described as America’s largest open…
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January 22, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Happy to finally have this paper out now in JUE. It's open access.
Cell phone location data can reflect what's happening in illicit markets and well targeted narcotics enforcement efforts can reverberate regionally.
Anyways here's the link:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Cell phone location data can reflect what's happening in illicit markets and well targeted narcotics enforcement efforts can reverberate regionally.
Anyways here's the link:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Your reminder that local elections matter, and we need to elect better people. This is *indefensible* public policy. There's no reasonable expectation that spending $250 million of taxpayer money to upgrade an NHL arena might promote community welfare. None.
The Lightning's $250m in renovations will cost taxpayers $41.7m per year of lease extension, one of the priciest in sports history. If team owner Jeffrey Vinik wins state sales tax money as well for a no-year extension, that'll be a per-year cost of $∞.
Friday roundup: Lightning win $250m in tax money for 6-year lease extension, Missouri holds secret talks on Royals stadium
We have a bunch of new followers here thanks largely to all the tumult over the Kansas City Chiefs stadium deal, so it's worth another mention that Field of Schemes continues to exist after almost 28 ...
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January 23, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Your reminder that local elections matter, and we need to elect better people. This is *indefensible* public policy. There's no reasonable expectation that spending $250 million of taxpayer money to upgrade an NHL arena might promote community welfare. None.
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3rd UMBC Sports Economics Conference
June 9th through June 11th, 2026 at
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Any topic in sports economics and sports management. Submit paper titles and a 200-word abstract to Dennis Coates coates@umbc.edu. Submissions should arrive by March 1st.
June 9th through June 11th, 2026 at
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Any topic in sports economics and sports management. Submit paper titles and a 200-word abstract to Dennis Coates coates@umbc.edu. Submissions should arrive by March 1st.
January 23, 2026 at 2:06 PM
3rd UMBC Sports Economics Conference
June 9th through June 11th, 2026 at
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Any topic in sports economics and sports management. Submit paper titles and a 200-word abstract to Dennis Coates coates@umbc.edu. Submissions should arrive by March 1st.
June 9th through June 11th, 2026 at
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Any topic in sports economics and sports management. Submit paper titles and a 200-word abstract to Dennis Coates coates@umbc.edu. Submissions should arrive by March 1st.
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Why are many U.S. cities building less? Why have they insisted on a "thicket" of regulations that make housing hard to build?
In a new #EconJMP with Beau Bressler (beaubressler.github.io), we study how much of the answer lies with a forgotten federal program that taught cities to restrict growth
In a new #EconJMP with Beau Bressler (beaubressler.github.io), we study how much of the answer lies with a forgotten federal program that taught cities to restrict growth
November 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Why are many U.S. cities building less? Why have they insisted on a "thicket" of regulations that make housing hard to build?
In a new #EconJMP with Beau Bressler (beaubressler.github.io), we study how much of the answer lies with a forgotten federal program that taught cities to restrict growth
In a new #EconJMP with Beau Bressler (beaubressler.github.io), we study how much of the answer lies with a forgotten federal program that taught cities to restrict growth
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please let us have this one
January 14, 2026 at 11:37 PM
please let us have this one
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January 15, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Proud to announce that I've joined the editorial board at the International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship. Though known for sport marketing, they also do work related to consumer behavior, event analysis, & risk management.
www.emerald.com/ijsms
www.emerald.com/ijsms
International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship | Emerald Publishing
One of the world’s leading journals for the sports marketing industry.
www.emerald.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Proud to announce that I've joined the editorial board at the International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship. Though known for sport marketing, they also do work related to consumer behavior, event analysis, & risk management.
www.emerald.com/ijsms
www.emerald.com/ijsms
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A nice paper that shows a positive causal impact of college. By comparing outcomes on barley accepted students to otherwise identical barley rejected students, those that went to college earn 8% more than their counterparts with internal rates of return of 26%.
academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...
academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...
Marginal Returns to Public Universities*
Abstract. This article studies the returns to enrolling in U.S. public universities by comparing the long-term outcomes of barely admitted versus barely re
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January 10, 2026 at 3:00 PM
A nice paper that shows a positive causal impact of college. By comparing outcomes on barley accepted students to otherwise identical barley rejected students, those that went to college earn 8% more than their counterparts with internal rates of return of 26%.
academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...
academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...
Proud to announce that my coauthor @ivycollins.bsky.social just presented our paper “Thrown or Thriving: Modeling Buckoff Risk in Professional Bull Riding” at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
January 10, 2026 at 6:09 AM
Proud to announce that my coauthor @ivycollins.bsky.social just presented our paper “Thrown or Thriving: Modeling Buckoff Risk in Professional Bull Riding” at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
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Gender Equality Through Turnover: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Term Limit Reforms in Italy: Kansikas, Carolina; Bagues, Manuel
NEP/RePEc link
to paper
d.repec.org
September 15, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Gender Equality Through Turnover: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Term Limit Reforms in Italy: Kansikas, Carolina; Bagues, Manuel
A little late on the announcement, but I’m proud to announce my paper “Emotional Cues, Election Outcomes, and Intimate Partner Violence” has been published in the Eastern Economic Journal. Link below: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Client Challenge
link.springer.com
January 9, 2026 at 10:17 PM
A little late on the announcement, but I’m proud to announce my paper “Emotional Cues, Election Outcomes, and Intimate Partner Violence” has been published in the Eastern Economic Journal. Link below: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Did China's anti-corruption campaign work?
Research using housing discounts as a proxy for bribes to government officials says yes. Officials' discounts on new homes shrank significantly after the campaign started. Non-monetary benefits also diminished.
tinyurl.com/49evhfry
#economics #china
Research using housing discounts as a proxy for bribes to government officials says yes. Officials' discounts on new homes shrank significantly after the campaign started. Non-monetary benefits also diminished.
tinyurl.com/49evhfry
#economics #china
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Did China's anti-corruption campaign work?
Research using housing discounts as a proxy for bribes to government officials says yes. Officials' discounts on new homes shrank significantly after the campaign started. Non-monetary benefits also diminished.
tinyurl.com/49evhfry
#economics #china
Research using housing discounts as a proxy for bribes to government officials says yes. Officials' discounts on new homes shrank significantly after the campaign started. Non-monetary benefits also diminished.
tinyurl.com/49evhfry
#economics #china
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The Hot Hand fallacy is expensive.
This new study tracked live betting on 1,224 matches. A team that scores a 1-1 equalizer attracts 60% more bets in their favor.
However, always betting on the team with momentum leads to substantial negative returns.
Read more: tinyurl.com/45pv4tv5
#EconSky
This new study tracked live betting on 1,224 matches. A team that scores a 1-1 equalizer attracts 60% more bets in their favor.
However, always betting on the team with momentum leads to substantial negative returns.
Read more: tinyurl.com/45pv4tv5
#EconSky
December 9, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The Hot Hand fallacy is expensive.
This new study tracked live betting on 1,224 matches. A team that scores a 1-1 equalizer attracts 60% more bets in their favor.
However, always betting on the team with momentum leads to substantial negative returns.
Read more: tinyurl.com/45pv4tv5
#EconSky
This new study tracked live betting on 1,224 matches. A team that scores a 1-1 equalizer attracts 60% more bets in their favor.
However, always betting on the team with momentum leads to substantial negative returns.
Read more: tinyurl.com/45pv4tv5
#EconSky
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Forthcoming in JBEF: “CEOs, Parenthood, and Corporate Misconduct” by H. Donker, J. Nofsinger, and C. A. Shank. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
CEOs, parenthood, and corporate misconduct
This study examines whether CEOs’ personal experiences as parents influence corporate ethical behavior. Drawing on the female socialization hypothesis…
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December 18, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Forthcoming in JBEF: “CEOs, Parenthood, and Corporate Misconduct” by H. Donker, J. Nofsinger, and C. A. Shank. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Recently accepted by #QJE, “Who’s Afraid of the Minimum Wage? Measuring the Impacts on Independent Businesses Using Matched U.S. Tax Returns,” by Rao (@nirupama.bsky.social) and Risch: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Who’s Afraid of the Minimum Wage? Measuring the Impacts on Independent Businesses Using Matched U.S. Tax Returns*
Abstract. A common concern surrounding minimum wage policies is their impact on independent businesses, which are often feared to be less able to bear or p
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December 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Who’s Afraid of the Minimum Wage? Measuring the Impacts on Independent Businesses Using Matched U.S. Tax Returns,” by Rao (@nirupama.bsky.social) and Risch: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
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When temporary foreign workers in Canada obtain permanent residency it leads to increased job mobility, earnings, and sorting into high-wage firms, from Kory Kroft, Isaac Norwich, Matthew J. Notowidigdo, and Stephen Tino www.nber.org/papers/w34630
January 8, 2026 at 4:01 PM
When temporary foreign workers in Canada obtain permanent residency it leads to increased job mobility, earnings, and sorting into high-wage firms, from Kory Kroft, Isaac Norwich, Matthew J. Notowidigdo, and Stephen Tino www.nber.org/papers/w34630
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Ole Miss coach Joe Judge when asked about how hectic this week has been: “My next door neighbor was Aaron Hernandez. I know this is more chaotic.”
January 7, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Ole Miss coach Joe Judge when asked about how hectic this week has been: “My next door neighbor was Aaron Hernandez. I know this is more chaotic.”
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Great wrap up of sports facility subsidies in 2025 by @fieldofschemes.bsky.social. What a year it was ☹️
www.fieldofschemes.com/2026/01/02/2...
www.fieldofschemes.com/2026/01/02/2...
Friday roundup: The year that stadium subsidies went completely nuts
One year ago today, this site ran an item headlined "Was the Carolina Panthers’ $650m renovation deal really the worst of 2024? An investimagation," in response to the Center for Economic Accountabili...
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January 2, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Great wrap up of sports facility subsidies in 2025 by @fieldofschemes.bsky.social. What a year it was ☹️
www.fieldofschemes.com/2026/01/02/2...
www.fieldofschemes.com/2026/01/02/2...
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It's good to see editorial boards coming out against stadium subsidies. More this, please. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Kansas still has time to reverse course on an awful stadium subsidy
The Chiefs don’t need billions in public support for a new stadium.
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December 31, 2025 at 1:43 AM
It's good to see editorial boards coming out against stadium subsidies. More this, please. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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In today's JMP, @sanjanagh1.bsky.social looks at how changes in who is in power shapes regulatory discretion over pollution enforcement in the sugar industry. The same regulatory capacity leads to very different outcomes depending on who is in power.
blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?
blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?
Discretion and Capture: How Politics Shapes Pollution Enforcement in India. Guest post by Sanjana Ghosh
blogs.worldbank.org
December 3, 2025 at 10:28 PM
In today's JMP, @sanjanagh1.bsky.social looks at how changes in who is in power shapes regulatory discretion over pollution enforcement in the sugar industry. The same regulatory capacity leads to very different outcomes depending on who is in power.
blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?
blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?
Things from humanity that I want artifacts of to survive forever:
1. The Pop Tarts Bowl
2. Everything else
1. The Pop Tarts Bowl
2. Everything else
December 28, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Things from humanity that I want artifacts of to survive forever:
1. The Pop Tarts Bowl
2. Everything else
1. The Pop Tarts Bowl
2. Everything else
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Opportunity costs exist
Yet, Ohio leaders found $600 million to build a replacement NFL stadium for the Haslams, who have a net worth approaching $9 billion.
Ohio’s libraries could face hard choices next year after 2025 budget cuts
2025 was a tumultuous year for Ohio’s libraries, between the dismantling of a decades-old state funding system and millions of dollars in financial cuts.
buff.ly
December 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Opportunity costs exist