Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Keywords
Discrimination, Employment, Productivity
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy
Volume
6
Issue
3
First Page
187
Last Page
199
Abstract
Protesters sometimes face penalties for their actions, but few papers have attempted to quantify these penalties. We investigate whether the subsequent salaries and employment status of NFL players who took a knee or sat during the national anthem during the 2017 season differed from similar players who did not. We find limited evidence that they were penalized in terms of employment during the 2018 or 2019 seasons. Conditional on employment, we find an insignificant relationship between protesting and log salaries.
Department
Department of Economics
Original Publication Date
9-1-2023
DOI of published version
10.1007/s41996-023-00116-0
Repository
UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Jepsen, Christopher and Jepsen, Lisa K., "Taking a Knee: Effect of NFL Player Protests on Subsequent Employment and Earnings" (2023). Faculty Publications. 5461.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facpub/5461
