Published papers
Working papers in Applied Microeconomics
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UNLV-Econ-WPS-2026-015
Determinants of March Madness Tournament Advancement
This paper examines whether tournament seed and team efficiency ratings help explain how far teams advance in the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Using Bart Torvik NCAA basketball ratings data from 2008 to 2025, I construct a team-year dataset with…
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UNLV-Econ-WPS-2026-005
Key Determinants of Diamond Value
This paper intends to examine the determinants of diamond pricing using a hedonic regression framework. Using the diamonds dataset from Wickham (2016), we analyze the four C’s, also known as carat weight, cut, color, and clarity. We also wanted to go deeper…
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UNLV-Econ-WPS-2026-004
Hedonics of Used Car Attributes on Market Price
This paper uses Rosen's paper on hedonic pricing as a framework to analyze the determinants of used car prices found in Craigslist. Using cleaned data, we observe over 43,000 listings from 2005 to 2020 and investigate factors that affect used car prices and…