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Football-Generated Rent Sharing and Expenditures on Women’s Intercollegiate Athletics

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  • Brad R. Humphreys
  • Jane E. Ruseski

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Recent research contains evidence of rent sharing in intercollegiate athletic programs from revenues generated by football and men’s basketball and regulations restricting compensation to athletes. Title IX mandates equal opportunities for male and female college athletes, clearly impacting athletic department budgets. These factors create a rich environment for analyzing athletic spending decisions. We analyze spending on women’s sports for about 120 NCAA public FBS athletic departments. Results from instrumental variables models that account for the endogeneity of the rent proxy variable, head football coach salary, indicate the presence of rent sharing from football-generated rents to spending on women’s sports.

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  • Brad R. Humphreys & Jane E. Ruseski, 2024. "Football-Generated Rent Sharing and Expenditures on Women’s Intercollegiate Athletics," Journal of Sports Economics, , vol. 25(8), pages 919-931, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:jospec:v:25:y:2024:i:8:p:919-931
    DOI: 10.1177/15270025241268774
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