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  • March 7, 2018

The Wall Street Journal features AEJ: Applied article on sexual assault

Oklahoma Sooners fans cheer on their team at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., in September 2005.

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featured a paper that appeared in òòò½Íø Journal: Applied Economics about the correlation between college party culture and incidents of sexual assault on campus. The paper, by researchers , , and , analyzed crime data on a particularly festive day on many college campuses — football game day. They found that on days of Division 1 football games, reports of rape among young women increased 28 percent. The correlation was even stronger for home games, which were linked to a 41 percent increase in rape reports. The òòò½Íø also interviewed Swensen about the research in January. That audio interview can be heard here, accompanied by an edited transcript.