College Football Causes Crime
Jan 18th 2008eCollege Football
Via Marginal Revolution come a new paper which concludes that college football causes crime. The paper, which is written by two University of Colorado Economics professors, has some very interesting results.
We find that college football games are associated with sharp increases in crime. For instance, assaults increase by about 9% when a community hosts a college football game, vandalism increases by about 18%, and DUIs increase by about 13%. We also find evidence that upsets result in larger increases in crime than games that do not produce an upset. For instance, an upset loss at home is associated with a 112% increase in assaults and a 61% increase in vandalism.
The moral? It probably wasn’t a good idea to be walking around Ann Arbor after the Wolverines lost to Appalachian State.
2 Comments »
Palma on 23 Jan 2008 at 7:53 pm #
“The moral? It probably wasn’t a good idea to be walking around Ann Arbor after the Wolverines lost to Appalachian State.”
agreed, I am an app fan who went up to Ann Arbor for the big game. well the fraternity I am in has a chapter there and they threw a party that night after the game. I made the mistake of wearing my App jersey to it.
Lets just say I had to be defended by numerous brothers
Ryan on 22 Feb 2008 at 3:57 pm #
College football does not create crime, immature college students looking for excuses to make rukus create crime.