Adolescent Steroid Use and Intercollegiate Athletic Incentives

Brad Humphreys and Jane Ruseski

No 14-25, Working Papers from Department of Economics, West Virginia University

Abstract: We examine the relationship between college athletic scholarships and adolescent use of performance enhancing drugs. Annually, 4.5 million male high school athletes compete for about 132,000 athletic scholarships o_ered by NCAA Division I and II universities. Estimates from a probit model of self-reported steroid use among US adolescent males using data from the YRBSS suggest each sanction-related athletic scholarship reduction at NCAA institutions in a state increases the probability that high school males in that state report using steroids by 3%. Competition for athletic scholarships generates incentives for adolescent males to improve athletic performance through use of steroids.

Keywords: steroids; intercollegiate athletics; adolescents; sports (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I18 L83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2014-09
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