Title
Performance Measurement & Matching: The Market for Football Coaches
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Winter 2007
Publication Title
Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics
Volume
46
Abstract
The matching hypothesis asserts that it is the matching of the employee and the firm rather than the qualifications of the employee alone that matter. Using a unique and large data set of college football coaches, we perform two different tests of the matching hypothesis. The relative accuracy with which performance in college football is observed allows for a direct test of matching. We find that matching is a significant factor in team performance. A good match accounts, on average, for approximately a 5 percent improvement in performance. We also find that the hazard rate is increasing for the first five years and then subsequently decreasing over a coach’s tenure. Our evidence is consistent with a four- or five-year contracting period for college football coaches.
Issue
1
First Page
21
Last Page
35
ISSN
0747-5535
Repository Citation
Brown, Todd A.; Farrell, Kathleen A.; and Zorn, Thomas, "Performance Measurement & Matching: The Market for Football Coaches" (2007). Faculty Publications. 2.
https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/economicsandfinance_facultypubs/2
Comments
Originally published in the Quarterly Journal of Business & Economics (Winter 2007) 46(1), p. 21-35