ABSTRACT

In 2015, 65 universities in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I autonomous conferences changed their scholarship policy by allowing universities to give student-athletes cost of attendance stipends. While student-athletes welcomed this policy change, many people within the higher education community felt the policy change would lead to higher costs for the general student body. This paper provides the results of a difference-in-differences estimation designed to examine if the 2015 NCAA student-athlete scholarship policy change correlated with higher university-published estimated cost of attendance. The findings show a positive, statistically significant relationship between the policy change and estimated student cost of attendance.

摘要

2015 年，美国国家大学体育协会 (NCAA) 一级自治会议中的 65 所大学改变了奖学金政策，允许大学向学生运动员提供出勤津贴。虽然学生运动员对这一政策变化表示欢迎，但高等教育界的许多人认为政策变化会导致一般学生群体的成本增加。本文提供了差异估计的结果，旨在检查 2015 年 NCAA 学生运动员奖学金政策变化是否与大学公布的估计出勤成本相关。调查结果显示，政策变化与估计的学生出勤成本之间存在积极的、统计上显着的关系。