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Nineteenth century white physical activity and calories : socioeconomic status and diets

Carson, Scott Alan - 2014

Using data from late 19th and early 20th century US prisons, this study estimates the basal metabolic rates and calories for Americans of European descent. Throughout the 19th century, white basal metabolic rates (BMRs) and calories declined across their respective distributions, and much of the...

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Healthy climate, healthy bodies : optimal fuel taxation and physical activity

Bijgaart, Inge van den; Klenert, David; Mattauch, Linus; … - 2020

Transport has significant externalities including carbon emissions and air pollution. Public health research has identified additional social gains from active travel, due to health benefits of physical exercise. Per mile, these benefits greatly exceed the external costs from car use. We...

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Sports and child development

Felfe, Christina; Lechner, Michael; Steinmayr, Andreas - 2011 - This draft: October 2011

understood. This study fills part of this gap by analyzing the effect of sports club participation, one of the most popular extra …

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Sports clubs and populism : quasi-experimental evidence from German cities

Foertsch, Mona; Rösel, Felix - 2023

Does social capital always promote solidarity and democracy, or are social networks such as sports clubs also … vulnerable to populism? We exploit quasi-experimental variation in sports club membership in German cities. Sports clubs are … with higher sports club membership rates in the wake of marginally promoted soccer teams. The populist momentum is however …

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Labor market effects of sports and exercise : evidence from Canadian panel data

Lechner, Michael; Sari, Nazmi - 2014

Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on …

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Nineteenth century black and mulatto physical activity, calories, and life expectancy

Carson, Scott Alan - 2014

Using data from late 19th and early 20th century US prisons, this study considers how black and mulatto basal metabolic rates and calories varied with economic development. During the 19th century, black physical activity and net nutrition declined during the late 19th and early 20th centuries...

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Economic inequality and convergence through the lens of two sports

Grechyna, Daryna; Grechyn, Viktor - 2025

inequalities in chess, a mind-dominated sport, but not in tennis, a wealth-dominated sport. Negative economic shocks, such as the …

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The IOC's midas touch : Summer Olympics and city growth

Nitsch, Volker; Wendland, Nicolai - 2013

Hosting a mega-event is a costly activity of short duration. Still, cities frequently compete to become host of all types of events. This paper examines the effect of staging the largest and most important sporting event in the world, the Summer Olympic Games, on the host city. Applying a...

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Heterogeneous sports participation and labour market outcomes in England

Lechner, Michael; Downward, Paul - 2013 - This version: October 2013

Based on a unique composite dataset measuring heterogeneous sports participation, labour market outcomes and local … facilities provision, this paper examines for the first time the association between different types of sports participation on … employment and earnings in England. Clear associations between labour market outcomes and sports participation are established …

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Hooliganism in the shadow of the 9/11 terrorist attack and the Tsunami : do police reduce group violence?

Poutvaara, Panu (contributor); Priks, Mikael (contributor) - 2006

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