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Big game days in college football linked with sexual assault

  • Written by Peter Siminski, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Technology Sydney
The revelry that comes with college football comes with a serious social cost.Sergey Nivens/www.shutterstock.com

It’s already known that students drink and party more on college football’s big game days. We found in a recent study that sexual assault also increases.

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