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Criminals on the Field: A Study of College Football

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  • Radek Janhuba

    (CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Politickych veznu 7, 111 21 Prague, Czech Republic)

  • Kristyna Cechova

    (Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Smetanovo nabrezi 6, 111 01 Prague 1, Czech Republic)

Abstract

Economists have found mixed evidence on what happens when the number of police increases. On the one hand, more law enforcers means higher probability of detecting a crime, which is known as monitoring effect. On the other hand, criminals incorporate this increase into their decision making process and thus may commit less crimes, constituting the deterrence effect. This study analyzes the effects of an increase in the number of on-field college football officials, taking players as potential criminals and officials as law enforcers. Analyzing a novel play by play dataset from two seasons of college football, we report evidence of a monitoring effect being present in the overall dataset. This effect is mainly driven by offensive penalties which are called in the area of jurisdiction of the added official. The decomposition of the effect provides a limited evidence for the presence of the deterrence effect in the case of penalties with severe punishment and committed by teams with moderately high ability.

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  • Radek Janhuba & Kristyna Cechova, 2017. "Criminals on the Field: A Study of College Football," Working Papers IES 2017/13, Charles University Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Studies, revised Jul 2017.
    • Handle: RePEc:fau:wpaper:wp2017_13
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    • H43 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate
    • K14 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law - - - Criminal Law
    • Z29 - Other Special Topics - - Sports Economics - - - Other

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