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Biography

Rob Simmons is Professor of Economics at Lancaster University Management School. He has published extensively on topics in sports economics and labour economics. His recent publications are in European Journal of Operations Research, Scottish Journal of Political Economy and European Sport Management Quarterly. He is currently President of European Sports Economics Association and Co-editor of Economic Inquiry.

Abstract

David Berri (Southern Utah University), Alex Farnell (Maynooth University), Vincent O’Sullivan (University of Limerick), Rob Simmons (Lancaster University)

The Rooney Rule affirmative action policy was introduced to the National Football League in 2003. This policy mandated that at least one African-American person should be interviewed for a vacant head coach position. This policy has since been extended. Previous literature has shown that this policy has not had any significant effect on probability of a black coach achieving a head coach position in NFL. We move this research finding forwards by investigating hiring of coaches at levels below head coach. We find that black coaches have lower probability than white coaches of attaining assistant coordinator roles as promotions from position coaches. This suggests that the NFL faces a ‘pipeline’ problem where low rate of transition from assistant coach to head coach for African-Americans is related to lower rates of promotion from specialist coaching roles further down the NFL hierarchy.

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