Fair Pay for Fair Play: Estimating Pay Equity in Professional Baseball with Data Envelopment Analysis

Data envelopment analysis shows promise for generating objective estimates of pay equity. Applied to performance and salary data for 433 professional baseball players, data envelopment analysis ide...

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