The Relation Between A University's Football Team Record And The Size Of Its Application Pool

Robert G. Murphy () and Gregory Trandel
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Gregory Trandel: University Of Georgia

No 225, Boston College Working Papers in Economics from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: We show that the winning record of a universityís football team is positively (and statistically significant) related to the number of the applications for admittance received by that university. Our parameter estimates indicate that an increase in winning percentage from .500 to .750 tends to produce a 1.4% increase in applicants in the following year.

Keywords: Athletics; Sports; Academics; Applications; Football (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 I20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: Written 1993-12

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