Robert Baumann

Examining the Stress Response and Recovery Among Children With Migraine (2009)

Huss, Debra, Derefinko, Karen, Milich, Richard, Farzam, Farjam, Baumann, Robert

Objective This study compared physiological differences between children diagnosed with migraine and their healthy peers. Method Physiological measures were obtained at baseline, after...

258 Soft-Error Mitigation Soft Errors in Advanced Computer Systems (2008)

Robert Baumann

This article comprehensively analyzes soft-error sensitivity in modern systems and shows it to be application dependent. The discussion covers groundlevel radiation mechanisms that have the most...

Experimental studies on particle emissions from cruising ship, their characteristic properties, transformation and atmospheric lifetime in the marine boundary layer (2008)

Petzold, Andreas, Hasselbach, Jan, Lauer, Peter, Baumann, Robert, Franke, Klaus, Gurk, Christian, ...

Particle emissions from ship engines and their atmospheric transformation in the marine boundary layer (MBL) were investigated in engine test bed studies and in airborne measurements of expanding...

Aircraft-based Trace Gas Measurements in a Primary European Ship Corridor (2007)

Schlager, Hans, Baumann, Robert, Lichtenstern, Michael, Petzold, Andreas, Arnold, Frank, Speidel, M., ...

Aircraft measurements of gaseous ship emissions were performed in the vicinity of the heavily travelled ship lanes through the English Channel and in the exhaust trail of a major seagoing container...

Decay characteristics of single and double wake-vortex pairs in different atmospheric flow realisations (2005)

Gerz, Thomas, Baumann, Robert

Results of Large Eddy Simulation (LES) studies on the decay of aircraft wake vortices in real atmospheric turbulence conditions are presented. The work is conducted in the framework of projects...

Die konservative Behandlung der entzündlichen Adnexerkrankungen / (1919)

Baumann, Robert.

Thesis (doctoral)--Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen, 1919.

Determinants of Appalachia's Persistent Poverty

Robert Baumann

Appalachians have lower wages, employment rates, and educational attainment than residents elsewhere in the country in each decennial Census since 1940, when schooling and wage information was first...

Selling the Big Game: Estimating the Economic Impact of Mega-Events through Taxable Sales

Robert Baade, Robert Baumann, Victor Matheson

Professional sports leagues, franchises, and civic boosters, have used the promise of an all star game or league championship as an incentive for host cities to construct new stadiums or arenas at...

Changes in the Appalachian Wage Gap, 1970 to 2000

Robert Baumann

Since at least 1960, Appalachians have lower wages, employment rates, and educational attainment than residents elsewhere in the country. Despite educational gains and large federal outlays since...

Predicting the Path to Recovery from Hurricane Katrina through the Lens of Hurricane Andrew and the Rodney King Riots

Robert Baade, Robert Baumann, Victor Matheson

Hurricane Katrina caused the greatest damage of any hurricane in American history. We look at the rebuilding effort in New Orleans through the lens of two other disasters that occurred in 1992:...

The Economic Consequences of Professional Sports Strikes and Lockouts: Revisited

Robert Baade, Robert Baumann, Victor Matheson

Professional sports franchises have used the lure of economic riches as an incentive for cities to construct new stadiums and arenas at considerable public expense. An analysis of taxable sales in...

The Economic Consequences of Professional Sports Strikes and Lockouts: Revisited

Robert Baade, Robert Baumann, Victor Matheson

Professional sports franchises have used the lure of economic riches as an incentive for cities to construct new stadiums and arenas at considerable public expense. An analysis of taxable sales in...

Selling the Big Game: Estimating the Economic Impact of Mega-Events through Taxable Sales

Robert Baade, Robert Baumann, Victor Matheson

Professional sports leagues, franchises, and civic boosters, have used the promise of an all star game or league championship as an incentive for host cities to construct new stadiums or arenas at...

Down, Set, Hike: The Economic Impact of College Football Games on Local Economies

Robert Baade, Robert Baumann, Victor Matheson

This paper provides an empirical examination of the economic impact of spectator sports on local economies. Confirming the results of other ex post analyses of sports in general, this paper finds no...

Down, Set, Hike: The Economic Impact of College Football Games on Local Economies

Robert Baade, Robert Baumann, Victor Matheson

This paper provides an empirical examination of the economic impact of spectator sports on local economies. Confirming the results of other ex post analyses of sports in general, this paper finds no...

Differences in the College Enrollment Decision Across Race

Robert Baumann

The gap in college enrollment rates between whites and blacks has remained stable since 1990, despite large increases in tuition and higher average wages for whites. We find the determinants of the...

Changes in the Appalachian Wage Gap, 1970 to 2000

ROBERT BAUMANN

Since at least 1960, Appalachia has had lower wages, employment rates, and educational attainment than the rest of the country. Using a sample from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series Census...

Educational Spillovers: Does One Size Fit All?

Robert Baumann, Raphael Solomon

In a search model of production, where agents accumulate heterogeneous amounts of human capital, an individual worker's wage depends on average human capital in the searching population. Following...

Big Men on Campus: Estimating the Economic Impact of College Sports on Local Economies

Robert Baade, Robert Baumann, Victor Matheson

College football and men’s basketball are the largest revenue generators in college athletics. Studies funded by athletic boosters tout the economic benefits of a college athletic program as an...

Big Men on Campus: Estimating the Economic Impact of College Sports on Local Economies

Robert Baade, Robert Baumann, Victor Matheson

College football and men’s basketball are the largest revenue generators in college athletics. Studies funded by athletic boosters tout the economic benefits of a college athletic program as an...

Rejecting “Conventional” Wisdom: Estimating the Economic Impact of National Political Conventions

Robert Baade, Robert Baumann, Victor Matheson

This paper provides an empirical examination of the economic impact of the Democratic and Republican National Conventions on local economies. Our analysis from 1970-2005 of the 50 largest...

Educational Spillovers: Does One Size Fit All?

Robert Baumann, Raphael Solomon

In a search model of production, where agents accumulate heterogenous amounts of human capital, an individual worker’s wage depends on average human capital in the searching population. Based on...

Bowling in Hawaii: Examining the Effectiveness of Sports-Based Tourism Strategies

Robert Baumann, Victor Matheson, Chihiro Muroi

We use daily airplane arrival data from Hawaii’s Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to determine the net change in tourism for a variety of sporting events. We find two...

Big Men on Campus: Estimating the Economic Impact of College Sports on Local Economies

Robert Baade, Robert Baumann, Victor Matheson

College football and men’s basketball are the largest revenue generators in college athletics. Studies funded by athletic boosters tout the economic benefits of a college athletic program as an...

Bowling in Hawaii: Examining the Effectiveness of Sports-Based Tourism Strategies

Robert Baumann, Victor Matheson, Chihiro Muroi

We use daily airplane arrival data from Hawaii’s Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to determine the net change in tourism for a variety of sporting events. We find two...

Slippery Slope? Assessing the Economic Impact of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah

Robert Baade, Robert Baumann, Victor Matheson

This paper provides an empirical examination of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah. Our analysis of taxable sales in the counties in which Olympic events took place finds that some...

Slippery Slope? Assessing the Economic Impact of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah

Robert Baade, Robert Baumann, Victor Matheson

This paper provides an empirical examination of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah. Our analysis of taxable sales in the counties in which Olympic events took place finds that some...

Selling the Game: Estimating the Economic Impact of Professional Sports through Taxable Sales

Robert A. Baade, Robert Baumann, Victor A. Matheson

Sports leagues, franchises, and civic boosters tout the economic benefits of professional sports as an incentive for host cities to construct new stadiums or arenas at considerable public expense....

Hail to the Chief: Assessing the Economic Impact of Presidential Inaugurations on the Washington, D.C. Local Economy

Robert Baumann, Bryan Engelhardt, Victor Matheson

While presidential inaugurations routinely attract hundreds of thousands or more visitors to Washington, D.C. for the quadrennial celebration, our examination of employment from the Current...

The Non-Linear Effect of Wealth on Crime

Chihiro Muroi, Robert Baumann

Although theory suggests the relationship between crime and wealth is ambiguous, most empirical analyses estimate a monotonic relationship and find that wealth has negative effect on crime. Using two...

The Great Macroeconomic Experiment: Assessing the Effects of Fiscal Stimulus Spending on Employment Growth

Robert Baumann, Bryan Engelhardt, Victor Matheson

As the economics profession is split over the expected impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, we analyze the effects as if it were an experiment. Specifically, we analyze the...

Anomalies in Tournament Design: The Madness of March Madness

Robert Baumann, Victor Matheson, Cara Howe

Tournament design is of crucial importance in competitive sports. The primary goal of effective tournament design is to provide incentives for the participants to maximize their performance both...

Anomalies in Tournament Design: The Madness of March Madness

Robert Baumann, Victor Matheson, Cara Howe

Tournament design is of crucial importance in competitive sports. The primary goal of effective tournament design is to provide incentives for the participants to maximize their performance both...

Sports Franchises, Stadiums, and City Livability: An Examination of Professional Sports and Crime Rates

Robert Baumann, Bryan Engelhardt, Victor Matheson, Taylor Ciavarra

We estimate the impact sporting events have on local crime rates using the technique developed in Arellano and Bond (2001). For events, we consider the presence of MLB, NBA, NFL, and NHL franchises...

Sports Franchises, Stadiums, and City Livability: An Examination of Professional Sports and Crime Rates

Robert Baumann, Bryan Engelhardt, Victor Matheson, Taylor Ciavarra

We estimate the impact sporting events have on local crime rates using the technique developed in Arellano and Bond (2001). For events, we consider the presence of MLB, NBA, NFL, and NHL franchises...