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Does college football impact the size of university applicant pools and the quality of entering students?

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  • Steven B. Caudill
  • Shannon Hourican
  • Franklin G. Mixon

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The role played by collegiate athletics in furthering the mission of institutions of higher education has been one of the more active research streams in the economics literature. Two areas of emphasis in this particular genre concern the relationship between athletics success and the size of a university’s applicant pool, and the relationship between athletics success and the quality of a university’s incoming class. This study extends both lines of research above by employing a unique panel data set consisting of 10 institutions that either added or eliminated college football between 1997 and 2015 in order to examine the impact of the presence of college football programme on both the size of university applicant pools and the quality of the students chosen for admission. Results from a panel data estimator presented here suggest that the size of their applicant pool shrinks the year following discontinuation of a college football programme. In the case of ACT scores, the results are similar, indicating that the ACT scores of incoming freshmen decrease after discontinuation of football.

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  • Steven B. Caudill & Shannon Hourican & Franklin G. Mixon, 2018. "Does college football impact the size of university applicant pools and the quality of entering students?," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 50(17), pages 1885-1890, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:50:y:2018:i:17:p:1885-1890
    DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2017.1380289
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    1. Jerome Segura III & Jonathan Willner, 2019. "Athleticism in NCAA D-III: It Ain’t Only Football That Matters," Journal of Sports Economics, , vol. 20(7), pages 929-958, October.
    2. Singleton, Carl & Bell, Adrian R. & Chung, Andy & Reade, J. James & Urquhart, Andrew, 2024. "Scoring goals: The impact of English Premier League football teams on local university admissions," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 244(C).
    3. Craig McFarland & Peter A. Groothuis & Dennis Guignet, 2024. "The role of football win percentage on college applications for Power Five and Group of Five schools," Contemporary Economic Policy, Western Economic Association International, vol. 42(3), pages 474-482, July.
    4. Gregory A. Falls & Paul A. Natke & Linlan Xiao, 2022. "College football attendance in the long run: The Football Championship Subdivision," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 43(6), pages 2172-2183, September.
    5. Austin F. Eggers & Peter A. Groothuis, 2021. "The Impact of Winning an NCAA Men's Basketball or Football Championship on Academic Quality," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 41(2), pages 263-275.
    6. Trevor Collier & Nancy Haskell & Kurt W. Rotthoff & Alaina Baker, 2020. "The “Cinderella Effect†: The Value of Unexpected March Madness Runs as Advertising for the Schools," Journal of Sports Economics, , vol. 21(8), pages 783-807, December.
    7. Faria, João Ricardo & Ferreira, João J. & Johnson, Ken H. & Mixon, Franklin G. & Wanke, Peter F., 2020. "Agglomeration economies and university program creation in the knowledge economy," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 72(C).
    8. Austin F. Eggers & Peter A. Groothuis & Parker Redding & Kurt W. Rotthoff & Michael Solimini, 2020. "Universities Behaving Badly: The Impact of Athletic Malfeasance on Student Quality and Enrollment," Journal of Sports Economics, , vol. 21(1), pages 87-100, January.
    9. Craig McFarland & Peter A. Groothuis & Dennis Guignet, 2023. "The Role of Football Win Percentage on College Applications for Power Five and Group of Five School," Working Papers 23-02, Department of Economics, Appalachian State University.

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