Cook, Adam R.
ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT
Sports Management
ACADEMIC SCHOOL
School of Business
TITLES/RESPONSIBILITIES
Associate Professor, Sports Management
CONTACT
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OFFICE
Swan Business Center 204C
COURSES TAUGHT
- BSM 309. Sports Marketing
- BLX 310. Sports and the Law
- SAM 604. Sport Economics
ACADEMIC DEGREES
Ph.D., University at Buffalo, 2015
OTHER EDUCATION
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Applied econometrics in sport, crime, health, growth and demography.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- “The 12th Man Plays Defense: The Effects of Heterogeneous COVID-19 NFL Stadium Attendance Restrictions,” Journal of Sports Economics 27 (1), 27-56 (2026).
- “Reducing Crime Through Public Policy: Evidence from the 2006 Expansion of Daylight Saving Time in Indiana,” Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 1-35 (2025).
- “Saving lives: the 2006 expansion of daylight saving in Indiana,” Journal of Population Economics 35 (3), 861-891 (2022).
Current working paper:
- “The Hot Crowd Effect: Insights and Implications of COVID-19 Attendance Restrictions on TV Viewership” with Mark Wilson.
TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS/PROJECTS
Causal inference in observational data, data analytics in sport, health and demography.
PERSONAL INTERESTS/COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
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