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The faculty Flutie factor: Does football performance affect a university's US News and World Report peer assessment score?
Institution:1. Department of Economics, Stonehill College, United States;2. Mercatus Center at George Mason University, United States;3. Eugene Stetson School of Business and Economics, Mercer University, United States;4. Corporate Development Senior Consultant, Deloitte, United States;1. Section of Plastic Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5340, USA;2. Section of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5340, USA;1. Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK;2. School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds, UK;1. Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Faculdade de Educação Física e Desportos, Programa de Pós‐Graduação em Educação Física, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brasil;2. Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Faculdade de Educação Física e Desportos, Laboratório de Avaliação Motora, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brasil;3. Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP), Laboratório de Estudos e Pesquisas do Exercício e Esporte (LABESPEE), Centro Desportivo, Ouro Preto, MG, Brasil;4. Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Faculdade de Educação Física e Desportos, Departamento de Fundamentos da Educação Física, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brasil;1. Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children''s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA;2. Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA;3. Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA;4. Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO;5. Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO;6. Section of Developmental Biology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO;7. Section of Developmental Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO;8. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO;9. Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO;10. Section of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/Bone Marrow Transplantation, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO;11. Section of Hematology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO;1. Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação Física, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Física, Campinas, SP, Brazil;2. Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação Física, Departamento de Estudos da Atividade Física Adaptada, Campinas, SP, Brazil;3. Confederação Brasileira de Atletismo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil;4. Desportivo Brasil Participações LTDA, Porto Feliz, SP, Brazil;5. Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde da Criança e do Adolescente, Campinas, SP, Brazil;6. Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação Física, Departamento de Ciências do Esporte, Campinas, SP, Brazil;1. DEMM, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Conservatorio 7, I-20122 Milan, Italy;2. Department of Economics and Statistics “Cognetti de Martiis”, Università degli Studi di Torino, Lungo Dora Siena 100 A, I-10153 Turin, Italy;3. Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano (LdA), Milan, Italy;4. Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany;5. Laboratorio Riccardo Revelli (LABOR), Turin, Italy
Abstract:Analyzing the peer assessment category of the US News and World Report's America's Best Colleges rankings, we find that universities fielding a Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) team are more highly rated by administrators and faculty at peer institutions. Universities are also more highly rated if their football team receives a greater number of votes in either the final Associated Press or Coaches’ Poll. Controlling for unobserved heterogeneity, our estimates suggest that a one standard deviation increase in votes from one season to the next is associated with a peer score increase that is about equal (in absolute value terms) to the mean year-over-year peer score decline witnessed by the institutions in our sample. Performance matters even if we only focus on FBS schools.
Keywords:College football  Football bowl subdivision  National universities  Peer assessment
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