The impact of college football on academic achievement

Rey Hernández-Julián and Kurt W. Rotthoff

Economics of Education Review, 2014, vol. 43, issue C, 141-147

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 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 L83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2014.09.002

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