The Effect of Performance, Experience and Football Programs on College Volleyball Coaches’ Salaries

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dc.contributorHartley, Jim
dc.contributorPriest, Laurie
dc.contributor.advisorRobinson, Michael
dc.contributor.authorKneifel, Martina
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-20T14:44:50Z
dc.date.available2014-10-20T14:44:50Z
dc.date.gradyear2014en_US
dc.date.issued2014-10-20
dc.description.abstractMultiple studies have investigated the pay-performance relationship for coaches of college football and basketball. Typically football and basketball programs are responsible for generating the majority of revenue within athletics departments. However, little research has been done on the determinants of compensation for coaches of “nonrevenue” sports like women’s volleyball. It is also unclear how maintaining high profile sports like football and basketball impacts other sports programs within an athletics department. The purpose of my study is to test whether and how a volleyball coach’s salary depends on past performance and experience. I also examine how the financial success of a football program affects a volleyball coach’s compensation. After reviewing existing literature and applicable theoretical models I estimate an OLS log-linear model of volleyball coach compensation to test three hypotheses. These hypotheses each predict positive effects of a coach’s experience, past performance and the revenue generated from football on a coach’s compensation. I collect data for NCAA Division I volleyball coaches at public colleges and universities using state transparency databases. My findings provide strong support for a pay-performance relationship, but cannot confirm an effect that experience might have on pay. My results also show a positive effect of the financial success of a football program on wage, but indicate that there is a level of football program revenue below which a volleyball coach would benefit more from the lack of a program.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipEconomicsen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10166/3596
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rights.restrictedrestricteden_US
dc.subjectsportsen_US
dc.subjectperformance payen_US
dc.subjectOLSen_US
dc.subjectregression analysisen_US
dc.subjectsalariesen_US
dc.subjectcompensationen_US
dc.subjecthuman capital theoryen_US
dc.titleThe Effect of Performance, Experience and Football Programs on College Volleyball Coaches’ Salariesen_US
dc.typeThesis
mhc.degreeUndergraduateen_US
mhc.institutionMount Holyoke College

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