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Trends in NCAA athletic spending : arms race or rising tide?
Hoffer, Adam; Humphreys, Brad R.; Lacombe, Donald J.; … - In: Journal of sports economics 16 (2015) 6, pp. 576-596
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The NCAA athletics arms race: theory and evidence
Hoffer, Adam; Humphreys, Brad R.; Lacombe, Donald J.; … - 2014
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Is Self-Sufficiency for Womens Collegiate Athletics a Hoop Dream?: Willingness to Pay for Mens and Womens Basketball Tickets
Rosas, Juan; Orazem, Peter - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2011
Universities spend almost $2 billion subsidizing their collegiate sports programs.  Even the most popular women’s sport, basketball, fails to break even. An application of Becker’s theory of customer discrimination is used to calculate the relative preference for men’s...
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NCAA Scholarship Limits and Competitive Balance in College Football
Sutter, Daniel; Winkler, Stephen - In: Journal of Sports Economics 4 (2003) 1, pp. 3-18
, including the standard deviation of winning percentages and Associated Press rankings. They also examine the 1991 NCAA roll …
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Equal Pay on the Hardwood: The Earnings Gap between Male and Female NCAA Division I Basketball Coaches
Humphreys, Brad R. - In: Journal of Sports Economics 1 (2000) 3, pp. 299-307
This article examines the earnings gap between male and female National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) head …
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Neither Reasonable nor Necessary: “Amateurism” in Big-Time College Sports
Daniel, Rascher; Andrew, Schwarz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
The NCAA and its member schools are a joint venture that fixes the compensation of its most important workers, the … those athletes. From the point of view of rule of reason antitrust analysis, the NCAA’s justification for its concerted wage …
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From the Hardwood to the Gridiron to the Dorm: Influences on Attendance to Women’s Collegiate Basketball
II, Craig A. Depken; Williams, Courtney; Wilson, Dennis P. - In: International Journal of Sport Finance 6 (2011) 1, pp. 3-22
This paper provides an empirical analysis of attendance to Division I women’s collegiate basketball programs from 2000-2009. The evidence suggests that women’s basketball attendance is sensitive to many of the same variables known to influence attendance to men’s collegiate basketball,...
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THE POWER OF WAGERING ON POWER CONFERENCES
Krieger, Kevin; Girdner, Clay; Fodor, Andy; Kirch, David - In: Journal of Prediction Markets 7 (2013) 1, pp. 13-26
We study the perceived discrepancy between power conference and mid-major college football teams by examining outcomes of games when these teams face one another. We find that point spreads are set statistically irrationally in games where power conference teams play mid-major teams. We examine...
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Does Gender Affect Compensation Among NCAA Basketball Coaches?
Brook, Stacy L.; Foster, Sarah - In: International Journal of Sport Finance 5 (2010) 2, pp. 96-106
Due to significant salary differences between male and female employees, NCAA institutions have been accused of gender … affecting NCAA school revenues and coaching performance, and use a linear regression to estimate the statistical impact each … variable has on compensation. Our empirical findings do not find employer discrimination of NCAA basketball coaches in 2004-2005. …
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The Estimated Rents of a Top-Flight Men’s College Hockey Player
Kahane, Leo H. - In: International Journal of Sport Finance 7 (2012) 1, pp. 19-29
We employed a methodology similar to Brown (1993, 1994) to estimate the marginal revenue generated by a top-flight NCAA … schools. According to the NCAA, the average value of an athletic scholarship is between $14,000 for in-state public schools to …
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