Research Note: Athletic Graduation Rates and Simpson’s Paradox

Victor Matheson

No 506, Working Papers from College of the Holy Cross, Department of Economics

Abstract: Graduation rates for male athletes overall as well as men’s football and basketball players lag behind those of male non-athletes at Division I colleges and universities. Scholarship athletes, however, are much more likely to be drawn from racial and ethnic groups with lower average graduation rates. After accounting for differences in racial composition, graduation rates for male athletes overall as well football players match or exceed those of their peers, and racial differences account for over one-quarter of the shortfall in men’s basketball graduation rates. This is a classic example of Simpson’s Paradox.

Keywords: college sports; sports economics; graduation rates (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 11 pages
Date: 2005-03
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Published in Economics of Education Review, Vol. 26:4, August 2007, pp. 516-520.

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