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Peters, Caryn Renee |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2017-10-12T14:36:24Z |
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dc.date.available |
2017-10-12T14:36:24Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2017 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/22876 |
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dc.description |
31 pages. A thesis presented to the Department of Economics and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of Science, Spring 2017 |
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dc.description.abstract |
While there exists consensus on the effect of high school sports participation on academic achievement and educational attainment, very little is known about the effect of high school athletic division on athletic and academic performance. This thesis uses a Regression Discontinuity Design approach by exploiting strict cutoffs in Texas that determine high school athletic division solely on student enrollment. Since enrollment cutoffs remain unknown to each school, randomization around the threshold will allow us to reliably measure the causal effect of athletic division on athletic and academic performance. However, this thesis highlights the difficulties in answering this question: namely, it suffers from small sample size, and finds no statistically significant effects. While large standard errors detract from the power of these results, this thesis does cast doubt on athletic division having large effects on student performance. |
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en_US |
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dc.publisher |
University of Oregon |
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dc.rights |
Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US |
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dc.subject |
Regression Discontinuity |
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dc.subject |
Athletic Division |
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dc.subject |
High school |
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dc.subject |
Academic performance |
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dc.subject |
Enrollment |
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dc.subject |
Texas |
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dc.title |
Friday Night Lights: The Effect of High School Athletic Division on Student Academic and Athletic Performance |
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dc.type |
Thesis/Dissertation |
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