Faculty Publications
Race And National Football League Player Salaries After Controlling For Fantasy Statistics And Arrests
Document Type
Article
Keywords
Collective Bargaining Agreement, compensation, discrimination, National Football League, productivity, quantile regression, salary
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Journal of Sports Economics
Volume
22
Issue
4
First Page
359
Last Page
386
Abstract
This paper provides a novel contribution to studies of race and labor-market outcomes by using fantasy football statistics as a measure of performance across offensive skill positions and arrest data as a proxy for negative off-the-field behavior. We investigate whether the determinants of salaries and employment vary between 2005-06 and 2015-16, as the 2011 collective bargaining agreement (CBA) introduced extensive regulation of rookie contracts. As expected, fantasy football statistics are strong predictors of salaries and employment in both time periods, whereas race and arrests are not. Fantasy statistics and experience have diminishing marginal returns for both outcomes.
Department
Department of Economics
Original Publication Date
5-1-2021
DOI of published version
10.1177/1527002520975823
Repository
UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
Recommended Citation
Jepsen, Christopher; Jepsen, Lisa; Draisey, Trevor; and Mahoney, Josh, "Race And National Football League Player Salaries After Controlling For Fantasy Statistics And Arrests" (2021). Faculty Publications. 76.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facpub/76