scholarly journals Does Attending a More Elite School Lead to Better Labor Market Outcomes?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle Brookman
Keyword(s):  
Value Added ◽  
College Football ◽  
Strength And Conditioning ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Elite University ◽  
Selective University ◽  
Elite School ◽  
College Career ◽  
Football Programs ◽  
Athletic Scholarship

College football prospects in the market for an athletic scholarship face similar career-altering choices as traditional academic students when selecting a college, however, the market they operate in is very different. They are actively recruited by university coaches and closely observed by a college sports scouting industry. Their choice of school is highly anticipated and publicized within college sport culture. College football is no doubt a lucrative industry, particularly for the elite university football programs, but one may want to know if the athletic scholars themselves gain in any career measurable way by attending a more elite university football program. This analysis uses the scouting and coaches screening information to form a baseline control for pre-college ability and then estimates the value-added from choosing a more selective football program by measuring 3 observable football oriented career outcomes: 1) the probability of receiving an invite to the NFL Combine, 2) an objective metric for strength and conditioning, and 3) a player's overall order from the NFL draft. Evidence shows that recruits who choose a more selective university football program have a higher probability of receiving an invite to the NFL Combine. However, once at the Combine, there is no evidence that more selective university football programs produce better athletes based upon standardized strength and conditioning tests. Evidence also suggests that NFL employers utilize the objective information they gain at the NFL Combine in their draft decisions, in which case, the premium enjoyed from the initial Combine invite is attenuated. If NFL teams update the information obtained from the Combine into their draft decisions, then there is no evidence attending a more selective football program generates value-added to a recruit’s ability and thus, their post-college career. Additionally, there is suggestive evidence that highly sought after football recruits are made worse off by the recruiting process in general, holding objective measures of ability constant.

scholarly journals The Impact of Competitive Markets on Recruiting: Lessons from Collegiate Athletics

2018 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-35
Author(s):  
Cary A. Caro
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
College Athletics ◽  
College Football ◽  
Collegiate Athletics ◽  
High School Athletes ◽  
New Markets ◽  
Brand Recognition ◽  
Football Programs ◽  
The Impact

AbstractConference realignment in NCAA college athletics impacted traditional rivalries and affiliations as it took shape from 2010 to 2013. As schools traded conferences, their college football programs were left to compete against new foes, and in new markets for high school athletes. The impact of brand recognition, prestige, and new conference affiliation on recruiting are examined herein. The findings of the market competitive externalities are important for every labour market in which business opt to compete.

“I Don’t Know How You Get Past That”: Racism and Stereotyping in College Football Recruiting Media

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Adam Love ◽  
Sam Winemiller ◽  
Guy Harrison ◽  
Jason Stamm
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
White Men ◽  
College Football ◽  
Racial Stereotypes ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Sports Media ◽  
Know How ◽  
Color Blind ◽  
Football Programs ◽  
Racial Stereotyping

College football programs invest millions of dollars into recruiting top high school prospects. This recruiting process is covered extensively by reporters from sports media outlets. While the players being recruited are predominately Black, the sports media is disproportionately dominated by White men. In this context, the current study reports on data from interviews with 15 participants who work in the college football recruiting media industry. While some participants adopted a color-blind perspective dominated by a belief that racism no longer exists, most reporters expressed an awareness of racial stereotypes in the sports media and felt a need to address racial inequity. Such awareness presents an opportunity for anti-racist training that may help media members avoid racial stereotyping and address racism in the field.

scholarly journals The Long-Run Effects of Attending an Elite School: Evidence from the United Kingdom

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damon Clark ◽  
Emilia Del Bono
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
School Attendance ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Elite School ◽  
Significant Negative Impact ◽  
The Impact ◽  
School Assignment

This paper estimates the impact of elite school attendance on long-run outcomes including completed education, income, and fertility. Our data consist of individuals born in the 1950s and educated in a UK district that assigned students to either elite or non-elite secondary schools. Using instrumental variables methods that exploit the school assignment formula, we find that elite school attendance had large impacts on completed education. Surprisingly, there are no significant effects on most labor market outcomes except for an increase in female income. By contrast, we document a large and significant negative impact on female fertility. (JEL I21, I24, I26, J13, J16, J24, J31)

Blood, Sweat, and Tears

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derrick E. White
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
College Football ◽  
Black College ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Central Character ◽  
Predominately White Institutions ◽  
Predominately White ◽  
Football Programs

Black college football began during the nadir of African American life after the Civil War. The first game occurred in 1892, a little less than four years before the Supreme Court ruled segregation legal in Plessy v. Ferguson. In spite of Jim Crow segregation, Black colleges produced some of the best football programs in the country. They mentored young men who became teachers, preachers, lawyers, and doctors--not to mention many other professions--and transformed Black communities. But when higher education was integrated, the programs faced existential challenges as predominately white institutions steadily set about recruiting their student athletes and hiring their coaches. Blood, Sweat, and Tears explores the legacy of Black college football, with Florida A&M’s Jake Gaither as its central character, one of the most successful coaches in its history. A paradoxical figure, Gaither led one of the most respected Black college football programs, yet many questioned his loyalties during the height of the civil rights movement. Among the first broad-based histories of Black college athletics, Derrick E. White’s sweeping story complicates the heroic narrative of integration and grapples with the complexities and contradictions of one of the most important sources of Black pride in the twentieth century.

scholarly journals Added value of post-secondary education in Estonia

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merle Küttim ◽  
Jelena Hartšenko ◽  
Iivi Riivits-Arkonsuo
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Post Secondary Education ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Multiple Variables ◽  
Post Entry ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities

Education is seen in the human capital literature as one of the determining factors for labour market outcomes (Blázquez et al., 2018), measured through multiple variables. The aim of the current study is to examine the change in the earnings of graduates from Estonian post-secondary education institutions. This is achieved by comparing graduates who had studied from 2013 to 2016 in four fields: engineering, information technology, economics and natural sciences. To assess the change in pre- and post-entry earnings difference-in-differences regression was used. The results indicate there are differences between disciplines in terms of added value. In economics gender differences have the smallest and entrepreneurial activities the largest impact for the change in earnings. The study contributes to our understanding of added value of post-secondary education by combining educational, tax and social data, and analysing the change in graduates’ earnings pre- and post-entry. Keywords: Post-secondary education; earnings; value added; Estonia; labour market success

Cream Puffs

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 787-802
Author(s):  
Daniel Simundza
Keyword(s):  
Potential Problem ◽  
College Football ◽  
Rating System ◽  
Elite College ◽  
Home Field Advantage ◽  
Football Programs ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The U.S

This article provides a novel answer to the question of why elite college football programs schedule so-called “cream puff” games against vastly inferior out-of-conference opponents. Using data on college football games from 2002 to 2010, I find that a team’s chances of winning are 5.3–15.6% greater in the game following their victory over a cream puff. In my preferred estimation, this “cream puff effect” is roughly half as large as the estimated home field advantage. I also show that the U.S. Today/Sagarin rating system, which I use to control for team abilities, penalizes teams for playing vastly inferior opponents. I devise two empirical strategies that deal with this potential problem and show that the cream puff effect is not simply an artifact of the rating system. These results contribute to the literature on dynamic contests by showing that not only does the timing of one’s efforts within a contest matter but so does the schedule of one’s opponents.

Class Incorporated: Stratified Patterns of Academic Engagement at a Highly Selective University

2021 ◽  
pp. 136078042110138
Author(s):  
Megan Thiele ◽  
Amy Leisenring
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Academic Engagement ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Elite University ◽  
Selective University ◽  
Academic Activities ◽  
Class Stratification ◽  
Achievement Beliefs

This research examines the influence of social class stratification on students’ self-reported academic engagement. Drawing from 44 interviews with students from the three major class groups at an elite university, we show how social class patterns academic engagement. We analyze academic engagement along the following four domains: strategies for academic achievement, beliefs in personal ability, connections to academics, and the alignments between academic activities and career plans (Wang and Castenada-Sound, 2008). Counterintuitively, compared to both upper class and students from the lower class, middle-class students reported the lowest levels of academic engagement. We discuss possible explanations for these non-linear findings. We conclude by recommending that our traditional conceptions of academic engagement need to take social class into account, and further, that policy makers consider scaffolding for all non-upper class students within elite spaces.

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