Pay and Performance: An Examination of Texas High School Football Coaches‪.‬

Pay and Performance: An Examination of Texas High School Football Coaches Over the past decade, economic investigations of professional sports teams--particularly pay-for-performance studies--have become increasingly prevalent. This emerging research trend has evolved in part because of the broad applicability of economic principles to sporting contexts and also because of the increasing availability of performance and salary data for professional sports participants. Although it has not always been the case, reliable data for selected amateur sports, such as NCAA golf, are also starting to become available, allowing researchers to apply economic reasoning to these varied and important sports environments. (Examples are Callan and Thomas, 2004, 2006, which are investigations of the determinants of success in amateur golf that employed two different samples of NCAA golfers.)