{"id":{"repo_id":"uiuc","oai_identifier":"oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/49474"},"canonical_url":"https://search.dev.ndltd.org/etd/uiuc/oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/49474","repository":{"repo_id":"uiuc","name":"University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign","base_url":"https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/oai-pmh"},"display":{"title":"Three essays on intercollegiate athletics and the financial relationship with institutions of higher education","abstract":"This study includes three essays that seek to better understand the relationship between intercollegiate athletics activities and higher education institutions. The first essay is a review of the literature, which provides evidence of a strong relationship, specifically a financial relationship, between athletics and higher education. The next two essays conduct empirical studies to test aspects of this relationship. In Essay 2, panel regressions and an instrumental variables approach are used with data from the USA Today athletics finance database to analyze the effects of winning on institutional subsidies to athletics. Basketball wins are found to have a positive effect on the amount of subsidy that an institution provides to intercollegiate athletics. However, no evidence of a similar effect of football wins is found. A possible explanation for this difference is the timing of the respective season in the typical university budget cycle. Essay 3 uses a regression discontinuity approach with data from the Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics database to test the effects of making the men’s NCAA basketball tournament on athletic and institutional revenues. The findings suggest that making the tournament increases basketball-specific and total athletics revenues, but has no effect on institutional revenues. Although athletics success has been found to be associated with positive outcomes in other literature (e.g., higher applications), these essays provide evidence that any revenue increases related to success are isolated to the athletic department and are not realized by the institution. In fact, institutions appear to respond to athletics success by increasing the subsidies that they provide to athletics. Taken together, these essays provide insight into the relationship between athletics activities and the higher education institutions that choose to sponsor these activities.","abstract_html":"This study includes three essays that seek to better understand the relationship between intercollegiate athletics activities and higher education institutions. The first essay is a review of the literature, which provides evidence of a strong relationship, specifically a financial relationship, between athletics and higher education. The next two essays conduct empirical studies to test aspects of this relationship. In Essay 2, panel regressions and an instrumental variables approach are used with data from the USA Today athletics finance database to analyze the effects of winning on institutional subsidies to athletics. Basketball wins are found to have a positive effect on the amount of subsidy that an institution provides to intercollegiate athletics. However, no evidence of a similar effect of football wins is found. A possible explanation for this difference is the timing of the respective season in the typical university budget cycle. Essay 3 uses a regression discontinuity approach with data from the Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics database to test the effects of making the men’s NCAA basketball tournament on athletic and institutional revenues. The findings suggest that making the tournament increases basketball-specific and total athletics revenues, but has no effect on institutional revenues. Although athletics success has been found to be associated with positive outcomes in other literature (e.g., higher applications), these essays provide evidence that any revenue increases related to success are isolated to the athletic department and are not realized by the institution. In fact, institutions appear to respond to athletics success by increasing the subsidies that they provide to athletics. Taken together, these essays provide insight into the relationship between athletics activities and the higher education institutions that choose to sponsor these activities.","abstract_has_math":false,"creators":["Kearney, Tyler"],"institution":"University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign","degree_name":"Ph.D.","degree_level":"Dissertation","degree_discipline":"Ed Organization and Leadership","degree_department":null,"school":null,"contributors":["Delaney, Jennifer A.","DeBrock, Larry","Robinson-Cimpian, Joseph P.","Trent, William T."],"advisors":[],"committee_chairs":[],"committee_members":[],"year":2014,"date_issued":"2014-05-30T16:46:03Z","date_published":"2014-05-30T16:46:03Z","updated_at":"2026-07-22T22:25:38Z","subjects":["intercollegiate athletics finance","subsidies","regression discontinuity","instrumental variables"],"languages":["en"],"rights":["Copyright 2014 Tyler Kearney"],"rights_urls":[],"identifier_entries":[]},"links":{"outbound_url":"http://hdl.handle.net/2142/49474","outbound_label":"Handle","outbound_source":"dc:identifier"},"metadata_groups":[{"id":"people","label":"People","entries":[{"key":"dc:contributor","label":"Contributor","values":["Delaney, Jennifer A.","DeBrock, Larry","Robinson-Cimpian, Joseph P.","Trent, William T."]},{"key":"dc:creator","label":"Author","values":["Kearney, Tyler"]}]},{"id":"academic_context","label":"Academic Context","entries":[{"key":"dc:date","label":"Dc Date","values":["2014-05-30T16:46:03Z","2014-05"]},{"key":"dc:type","label":"Dc Type","values":["text"]},{"key":"thesis:degree_discipline","label":"Discipline","values":["Ed Organization and Leadership"]},{"key":"thesis:degree_level","label":"Degree Level","values":["Dissertation"]},{"key":"thesis:degree_name","label":"Degree Name","values":["Ph.D."]},{"key":"thesis:institution_name","label":"Thesis Institution Name","values":["University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"]}]},{"id":"subjects_keywords","label":"Subjects and Keywords","entries":[{"key":"dc:subject","label":"Dc Subject","values":["intercollegiate athletics finance","subsidies","regression discontinuity","instrumental variables"]}]},{"id":"language_rights","label":"Language and Rights","entries":[{"key":"dc:language","label":"Dc Language","values":["en"]},{"key":"dc:rights","label":"Dc Rights","values":["Copyright 2014 Tyler Kearney"]}]},{"id":"identifiers","label":"Identifiers","entries":[{"key":"dc:identifier","label":"Identifier","values":["http://hdl.handle.net/2142/49474"]}]},{"id":"additional","label":"Additional Metadata","entries":[{"key":"dc:description","label":"Description","values":["This study includes three essays that seek to better understand the relationship between intercollegiate athletics activities and higher education institutions. The first essay is a review of the literature, which provides evidence of a strong relationship, specifically a financial relationship, between athletics and higher education. The next two essays conduct empirical studies to test aspects of this relationship. In Essay 2, panel regressions and an instrumental variables approach are used with data from the USA Today athletics finance database to analyze the effects of winning on institutional subsidies to athletics. Basketball wins are found to have a positive effect on the amount of subsidy that an institution provides to intercollegiate athletics. However, no evidence of a similar effect of football wins is found. A possible explanation for this difference is the timing of the respective season in the typical university budget cycle. Essay 3 uses a regression discontinuity approach with data from the Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics database to test the effects of making the men’s NCAA basketball tournament on athletic and institutional revenues. The findings suggest that making the tournament increases basketball-specific and total athletics revenues, but has no effect on institutional revenues. Although athletics success has been found to be associated with positive outcomes in other literature (e.g., higher applications), these essays provide evidence that any revenue increases related to success are isolated to the athletic department and are not realized by the institution. In fact, institutions appear to respond to athletics success by increasing the subsidies that they provide to athletics. Taken together, these essays provide insight into the relationship between athletics activities and the higher education institutions that choose to sponsor these activities.","Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2014-04-21T18:30:18Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 1 Kearney_Tyler.pdf: 3663096 bytes, checksum: 762265472c8db00704d7c48d09262526 (MD5)","Made available in DSpace on 2014-05-30T16:46:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Tyler_Kearney.pdf: 3663096 bytes, checksum: 762265472c8db00704d7c48d09262526 (MD5) license.txt: 4063 bytes, checksum: e3a7a0dd83045c59d2eb1769f53cbb80 (MD5)"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["Three essays on intercollegiate athletics and the financial relationship with institutions of higher education"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["Delaney, Jennifer A.","DeBrock, Larry","Robinson-Cimpian, Joseph P.","Trent, William T."],"dc:creator":["Kearney, Tyler"],"dc:date":["2014-05-30T16:46:03Z","2014-05"],"dc:description":["This study includes three essays that seek to better understand the relationship between intercollegiate athletics activities and higher education institutions. The first essay is a review of the literature, which provides evidence of a strong relationship, specifically a financial relationship, between athletics and higher education. The next two essays conduct empirical studies to test aspects of this relationship. In Essay 2, panel regressions and an instrumental variables approach are used with data from the USA Today athletics finance database to analyze the effects of winning on institutional subsidies to athletics. Basketball wins are found to have a positive effect on the amount of subsidy that an institution provides to intercollegiate athletics. However, no evidence of a similar effect of football wins is found. A possible explanation for this difference is the timing of the respective season in the typical university budget cycle. Essay 3 uses a regression discontinuity approach with data from the Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics database to test the effects of making the men’s NCAA basketball tournament on athletic and institutional revenues. The findings suggest that making the tournament increases basketball-specific and total athletics revenues, but has no effect on institutional revenues. Although athletics success has been found to be associated with positive outcomes in other literature (e.g., higher applications), these essays provide evidence that any revenue increases related to success are isolated to the athletic department and are not realized by the institution. In fact, institutions appear to respond to athletics success by increasing the subsidies that they provide to athletics. Taken together, these essays provide insight into the relationship between athletics activities and the higher education institutions that choose to sponsor these activities.","Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2014-04-21T18:30:18Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 1 Kearney_Tyler.pdf: 3663096 bytes, checksum: 762265472c8db00704d7c48d09262526 (MD5)","Made available in DSpace on 2014-05-30T16:46:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Tyler_Kearney.pdf: 3663096 bytes, checksum: 762265472c8db00704d7c48d09262526 (MD5) license.txt: 4063 bytes, checksum: e3a7a0dd83045c59d2eb1769f53cbb80 (MD5)"],"dc:identifier":["http://hdl.handle.net/2142/49474"],"dc:language":["en"],"dc:rights":["Copyright 2014 Tyler Kearney"],"dc:subject":["intercollegiate athletics finance","subsidies","regression discontinuity","instrumental variables"],"dc:title":["Three essays on intercollegiate athletics and the financial relationship with institutions of higher education"],"dc:type":["text"],"thesis:degree_discipline":["Ed Organization and Leadership"],"thesis:degree_level":["Dissertation"],"thesis:degree_name":["Ph.D."],"thesis:institution_name":["University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"]},"updated_at":"2026-07-22T22:25:38Z"}