PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Daniel J. Henderson
AU  - Alexandre Olbrecht
AU  - Solomon W. Polachek
TI  - Do Former College Athletes Earn More at Work?
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.XLI.3.558
DP  - 2006 Jul 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 558--577
VI  - XLI
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XLI/3/558.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XLI/3/558.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2006 Jul 01; XLI
AB  - This paper investigates how students’ collegiate athletic participation affects their subsequent labor market success. By using newly developed techniques in nonparametric regression, it shows that on average former college athletes earn a wage premium. However, the premium is not uniform, but skewed so that more than half the athletes actually earn less than nonathletes. Further, the premium is not uniform across occupations. Athletes earn more in the fields of business, military, and manual labor, but surprisingly, athletes are more likely to become high school teachers, jobs that pay relatively lower wages to athletes.