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Title: Scoring goals: The impact of English Premier League football teams on local university admissions
Author(s): Singleton, Carl
Bell, Adrian R
Chung, Andy
Reade, J James
Urquhart, Andrew
Contact Email: carl.singleton@stir.ac.uk
Keywords: professional football
relegation
local economy
regression-discontinuity design
higher education demand JEL codes: I20
R19
Z20
Issue Date: Nov-2024
Date Deposited: 30-Aug-2024
Citation: Singleton C, Bell AR, Chung A, Reade JJ & Urquhart A (2024) Scoring goals: The impact of English Premier League football teams on local university admissions. <i>Economics letters</i>, 244, Art. No.: 111957. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2024.111957
Abstract: Anecdotal evidence suggests that co-location with an English Premier League (EPL) football team can boost university recruitment. But when a town or city loses its EPL team, it also loses some of the world's attention. We test whether the EPL limelight does in fact affect university recruitment in England and Wales. We exploit the sharp annual cutoff between survival and relegation from the EPL, comparing the admissions outcomes of universities that have clear name association either side of that discontinuity. On average, losing association with an EPL team, for just one year after its relegation, significantly reduces a university's undergraduate year-to-year admissions growth by 4-8 percent. These findings suggest not only that the EPL generates local externalities but also that university executives should support their local teams.
DOI Link: 10.1016/j.econlet.2024.111957
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