In this short note, the authors contrast their own recent work on racial integration in Major League Baseball with that of two other groups: Hanssen and Meehan (2009) and Goff, McCormick, and Tollison (2002). While reaching dissimilar conclusions, both groups understate the role of the entrepreneur in the process of integration and rely too heavily on a continuous estimation model for a discrete dependent variable.
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Goff, B.L., McCormick, R.E., & Tollison, R.D. (2002). Racial integration as an innovation: Empirical evidence from sports leagues. American Economic Review, 92, 16-26.
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Hanssen, F.A., & Meehan Jr., J. W. (2009). Who integrated Major League Baseball faster winning teams or losing teams?Journal of Sports Economics, 10, 141-154.
