This paper analyzes the labor market for collegiate football players and argues that professional football teams have discriminating preferences when making their hiring decisions. An empirical analysis of panel data of 32 NFL teams in recent seasons is carried out to test the effects of such...

How important is recruiting to a football program's success? While prior research has attempted to answer this question, we utilize an extensive panel set covering 13 years of games along with a two stage least squares approach to investigate the effects of recruiting on team success. We also...

College athletics, despite being amateur in their nature, have burgeoned into multi-million dollar businesses. However, although there have been many studies of professional athletic leagues, little has been done to examine college athletics as a business. This paper tests popular assumptions...