An Examination of the Role That Intercollegiate Athletic Participation Plays in Academic Achievement: Athletes' Feats in the Classroom
研究校际体育参与是否影响学业成绩，发现运动员整体成绩低于普通学生，但背景因素可解释多数差异；然而，高收入体育项目的运动员即使控制背景因素后成绩仍更差，且这种差异具有季节性，表明运动员的剥削延伸至课堂。
We investigate whether intercollegiate athletic participation affects scholarly success. The overall means of course grades suggest that athletes do not do as well in the classroom as regular students. Background factors explain this underperformance for most sports; athletes come to school with lower SAT scores and poorer high school preparation. However, players in the revenue sports do worse even accounting for this. We investigate the cause of this unexplained underperformance: We find that it is a seasonal phenomenon. To us, this means that the exploitation of athletes extends beyond the sidelines and into the classroom.