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The Faculty Flutie Factor: Does Football Performance Affect a University's US News and World Report Peer Assessment Score? *

Sean E. Mulholland, +3 more
- 01 Dec 2014 - 
- Vol. 43, pp 79-90
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The authors found that universities fielding a Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) team are more highly rated by administrators and faculty at peer institutions than those that do not field an FBS team.
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This article is published in Economics of Education Review.The article was published on 2014-12-01 and is currently open access. It has received 19 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Football & Peer assessment.

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Unpaid Professionals: Commercialism and Conflict in Big-Time College Sports

Paul M. Pedersen
- 01 Oct 2000 - 
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The Impact of College Football on Academic Achievement

Rey Hernández-Julián, +1 more
- 14 Aug 2014 - 
TL;DR: This paper revisited a recent study by Lindo, Swensen and Waddell, who found a negative relationship between the success of the University of Oregon football team and the academic performance of students as measured by grades.
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Okay, Seminoles, take over from here: Native American mascot as organization builders at Florida State University

Dong Hyuk Shin
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“Two heads are better than one”: A continuum of social change in sport management

Adam Love, +2 more
- 15 Mar 2021 - 
TL;DR: Since the initiation of the first academic sport management program approximately 50 years ago, the efforts of countless scholars have enabled sport management to attain a strong position as an academic discipline as mentioned in this paper.
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Exploring cognitive bias: expert ratings of business schools

Erin G. Pleggenkuhle-Miles, +3 more
- 11 Nov 2013 - 
TL;DR: The authors found that the judgments of academicians and recruiters concerning the quality of universities have been biased by the prominence of a university's football and basketball performance variables, and a mediating-model was tested using regression with panel-corrected standard errors.
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Job Market Signaling

Michael Spence
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Phillip J. Nelson
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Umbrella branding as a signal of new product quality: an example of signalling by posting a bond

Birger Wernerfelt
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a signalling model in which a multiproduct firm can use its reputation as a bond for quality by using a brand name for an established product when it introduces a new experience good.
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The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values

James L. Shulman, +1 more
TL;DR: This book discusses the institutionalization and Regulation of College Sports in Historical Perspective and the development of women's athletic programs in historical Perspective.
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Q1. What are the contributions mentioned in the paper "The faculty flutie factor: does football performance affect a university’s us news and world report peer assessment score?" ?

Analyzing the peer assessment portion of the US News and World Report ’ s college rankings, the authors find that administrators and faculty rate more highly universities whose football team receives a greater number of votes in either the final Associated Press or Coaches Poll. Controlling for unobserved heterogeneity, their estimates suggest that a one standard deviation increase in the number of votes received in either the Associated Press or USA Today Coaches ’ Football Poll is viewed as positively as a forty point increase in a school ’ s SAT score at the 75 percentile.