Listen Here, Harvard Boy…
By I trust that Yglesias is employing what the kids these days call “sarcasm”…
For instance, assaults increase by about 9% when a community hosts a college football game, vandalism increases by about 18%, and DUIs increase by about 13%. We also find evidence that upsets result in larger increases in crime than games that do not produce an upset. For instance, an upset loss at home is associated with a 112% increase in assaults and a 61% increase in vandalism. We discuss these results in the context of psychological theories of fan aggression.
Strange but, it seems, true.
…although you can never be sure with these Ivy League types. Anyway, the study falls firmly within a category I call “establishing the banal in a methodologically rigorous fashion”, which seems to constitute about 85% of basic social science research.