March Madness: NCAA Tournament Participation and College Alcohol Use

Authors

Dustin R. White, University of Nebraska at OmahaFollow
Benjamin W. Cowan, Washington State UniversityFollow
Jadrian J. Wooten, The Pennsylvania State UniversityFollow

Author ORCID Identifier

Dustin White

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-9-2019

Publication Title

Contemporary Economic Policy

First Page

1

Last Page

13

Abstract

While athletic success may improve the visibility of a university to prospective students and thereby benefit the school, it may also increase risky behavior in the current student body. Using the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study, we find that a school's participation in the NCAA Basketball Tournament is associated with a 47% increase in binge drinking by male students at that school. Additionally, we find evidence that drunk driving increases by 5% among all students during the tournament. (JEL I12, I23, Z28)

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© 2019 The Authors. Contemporary Economic Policy published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of the Western Economic Association International. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

doi:10.1111/coep.12425

Recommended Citation

White, Dustin R.; Cowan, Benjamin W.; and Wooten, Jadrian J., "March Madness: NCAA Tournament Participation and College Alcohol Use" (2019). Economics Faculty Publications. 59.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/econrealestatefacpub/59

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