caa a22 4500 47707782X CHVBK 20180405111443.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00130412 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00130412 Rent-seeking in higher education: Voting on academic requirements [Elektronische Daten] [Robert Brown, R. Jewell] Research on U.S. college athletics suggests that voting on academic eligibility rules is motivated by rent-seeking behavior. Furthermore, academic eligibility rules have been criticized as being racially biased — more blacks than whites fail to meet the requirements. This paper examines whether the potential racial bias impacted voting on a specific academic eligibility rule known as Proposition 42. Evidence of customer discrimination suggests revenue generating differentials between black and white college basketball players. If rent-seeking behavior motivates voting on academic eligibility rules, then the racial composition of recruits and fans may be determinants of Proposition 42 voting. The results show that schools with more black fans were more likely to oppose Proposition 42; however, schools with a larger pool of potential black recruits tended to favor it, perhaps due to a comparative advantage in recruiting black student-athletes. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996 Brown Robert Department of Economics, University of North Texas, P.O. Box 13408, 76203-3408, Denton, TX aut Jewell R. Department of Economics, University of North Texas, P.O. Box 13408, 76203-3408, Denton, TX aut Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers; http://www.wkap.nl 88/1-2(1996-07-01), 103-113 0048-5829 88:1-2<103 1996 88 11127 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00130412 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00130412 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brown Robert Department of Economics, University of North Texas, P.O. Box 13408, 76203-3408, Denton, TX aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Jewell R. Department of Economics, University of North Texas, P.O. Box 13408, 76203-3408, Denton, TX aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers; http://www.wkap.nl 88/1-2(1996-07-01), 103-113 0048-5829 88:1-2<103 1996 88 11127 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer