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谁从业余主义中获利？现代大学体育中的租金分享
Who Profits from Amateurism? Rent-Sharing in Modern College Sports
摘要
Intercollegiate amateur athletics in the US have historically prevented student-athletes from receiving market wages, creating substantial economic rents that are primarily generated by men’s football and basketball programs. Using financial data from college athletic departments, we estimate rent-sharing elasticities to measure how rents flow to women’s sports and other men’s sports and lead to increased spending on athletic facilities and coaches’ salaries. Using player-level data, we find that the rent-sharing transfers spending away from students who are more likely to be Black and come from poor neighborhoods towards students more likely to be White and come from higher-income neighborhoods.
中文摘要
美国高校业余体育历来禁止学生运动员获得市场工资，由此产生了主要由男子橄榄球和篮球项目创造的大量经济租金。利用高校体育部门的财务数据，我们估算了租金分享弹性，以衡量租金如何流向女子体育及其他男子体育项目，并导致体育设施和教练薪资支出增加。基于运动员个体数据，我们发现租金分享将支出从更可能是黑人和来自贫困社区的学生，转移至更可能是白人和来自高收入社区的学生。