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JOURNAL OF SPORTS ECONOMICS
Volume 12, Issue 2, Pages 200-212Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1527002510378333
Keywords
marginal revenue product; monopsony markets; economic rent
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Past research indicates that top college football players generate over $500,000 annually in team revenues, well beyond the effective compensation of an athletic scholarship. This article supplements past empirical literature using the most comprehensive, detailed financial information yet compiled on college athletics. An alternative method estimates an equations system to account for the endogeneity of both a team's premium players and its overall performance. Estimates show that the marginal revenue product of a premium college football player-one drafted into the National Football League (NFL)-exceeds $1 million in 2004-2005 football revenues, over 30% higher than in previous estimates from 1988-1989 revenues.
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