TY - JOUR T1 - Do Former College Athletes Earn More at Work? JF - Journal of Human Resources JO - J Hum Resour SP - 558 LP - 577 DO - 10.3368/jhr.XLI.3.558 VL - XLI IS - 3 AU - Daniel J. Henderson AU - Alexandre Olbrecht AU - Solomon W. Polachek Y1 - 2006/07/01 UR - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XLI/3/558.abstract N2 - 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. ER -