A little bit of shameless self-promotion here, but some research I've been doing using the economics of sport has just been reviewed in the Guardian.
We detect using Opta data discrimination by Premiership referees. Before you jump out of your seat and shout down the nearest Premiership referee, this is implicit discrimination - i.e. referees are unaware they are discriminating.
This is an example of discovering evidence for something that interests economists using information (data) from sport. It's something I do a lot in my research - in sport we observe individuals making a large amount of decisions under varying degrees of uncertainty and pressure. Given that sport has generally quite simple rules that all participants are well aware of, and is very well measured and documented, this makes it interesting to be used for economists to conduct research.
This blog accompanies the econ217ab Contemporary Issues in the UK Economy course provided for intermediate economics undergraduates by the Department of Economics at the University of Birmingham. We will post on issues that are relevant for the material we lecture on during the course.
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