Empirical studies have produced mixed results on the relationship between a school's sports success and the quantity … and quality of students that apply to the school. This study uses two unique datasets to shed additional light on the … indirect benefits that sports success provides to NCAA Division I schools. Key findings include: (i) football and basketball …

athletics departments based on UNESCO sports-specific criteria.Finally, Part IV proposes a reasonable means to reform … intercollegiate sports in the United States. Specifically, the proposal calls for a bifurcated reform of collegiate sports in the U ….S., with a small number of revenue-generating colleges, in a small number of sports, adopting a commercial sports business …

Colleges compete to attract students by investing in amenities such as athletics, dormitories, and student activities … behavior in the context of Big-Time college sports. We resolve the selection issue using data from a large, public university … bottom of the achievement distribution and driven by in-state students and students attending during seasons when the team …

from a first-year economics class at a Sino-UK university, we examine how students assess their own and their peers …

admit students that tend to struggle elsewhere. Most of the impact of alternative evaluation is found to be due to their … impact on the applicant pool (sorting), and not because of they are better at identifying successful students keeping the …

foreign students within university-degree across four cohorts of undergraduate students. Foreign peers have zero to mild …

and years. I study a mandatory freshmen week for first-year undergraduates and exploit the random assignment of students ….e. very high or low levels of average peer ability in a group harm students' grades. These effects are most pronounced for low …-ability students …