Taking a Knee: Effect of NFL Player Protests on Subsequent Employment and Earnings

Christopher Jepsen and Lisa K. Jepsen
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Lisa K. Jepsen: University of Northern Iowa

Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, 2023, vol. 6, issue 3, No 5, 187-199

Abstract: Abstract Protesters sometimes face penalties for their actions, but few papers have attempted to quantify these penalties. We investigate whether the subsequent salaries and employment status of NFL players who took a knee or sat during the national anthem during the 2017 season differed from similar players who did not. We find limited evidence that they were penalized in terms of employment during the 2018 or 2019 seasons. Conditional on employment, we find an insignificant relationship between protesting and log salaries.

Keywords: Productivity; Discrimination; Employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J20 J30 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/s41996-023-00116-0

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