The impact of college football on academic achievement |
| |
| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717-2920, United States;2. Accenture LLP, 800 Connecticut Avenue, Ste. 600, Washington, DC 20006, United States;1. Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra 0200, Australia;2. Faculty of Economics and Institute for Social and Economic Studies, Dhurakij Pundit University, Bangkok 10210, Thailand;1. Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 525 West, 120th St, Box 174, New York, NY 10027, USA;2. Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, NY 11367, USA |
| |
| Abstract: | We revisit a recent study by Lindo, Swensen, and Waddell (2012), who found a negative relationship between the success of the University of Oregon football team and the academic performance of students as measured by grades. Using data from Clemson University, we also find that the football team's winning percentage is negatively related to academic performance. Although Lindo et al. (2012) found that the academic performance of male students was more sensitive to changes in the winning percentage than the academic performance of female students, we find evidence of the opposite phenomenon in the Clemson data. Moreover, the negative relationship between wins and academic performance at Clemson appears to persist into the spring semester. |
| |
| Keywords: | College athletics Academic achievement Student outcomes |
| 本文献已被 ScienceDirect 等数据库收录！ |
|
