CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Czobor, Rebeka |
|---|---|
| Title | How Valuable Are College Football Players? |
| Summary | There has been an ongoing debate on the employment status of college football players in the past years. Evidence shows a great amount of students living below the poverty line, while generating huge profit for their schools. In this thesis I estimate how valuable these players really are by quantifying quarterbacks’ marginal revenue product in two steps: using weekly game level data from 2005-2017 I estimated the contribution of players to team win numbers by running logit models. In the second step I calculated an additional win’s impact on team revenues using fixed effect models. I concluded that elite quarterback’s belonging to the 95th percentile of players generated an additional $1.1 million for their school team compared to the average athletes. |
| Supervisor | De Chiara, Alessandro |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/czobor_rebeka.pdf |
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