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Effects of Title Ix and Sports Participation on Girls' Physical Activity and Weight

Kaestner, Robert - 2010

In this study, we examined the association between girls%u2019 participation in high school sports and the physical activity, weight, body mass and body composition of adolescent females during the 1970s when girls%u2019 sports participation was dramatically increasing as a result of Title IX....

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Interracial Workplace Cooperation : Evidence from the NBA

Price, Joseph - 2009

Using data from the National Basketball Association (NBA), we examine whether patterns of workplace cooperation occur disproportionately among workers of the same race. We find that, holding constant the composition of teammates on the floor, basketball players are no more likely to complete an...

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Quantifying the Intangible Impact of the Olympics Using Subjective Well-Being Data

Dolan, Paul - 2019

Hosting the Olympic Games costs billions of taxpayer dollars. Following a quasi-experimental setting, this paper assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of 26,000 residents in London, Paris, and Berlin during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013. We show...

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Time Spent Exercising and Obesity : An Application of Lewbel's Instrumental Variables Method

Courtemanche, Charles - 2020

This paper examines the role physical activity plays in determining body mass using data from the American Time Use Survey. Our work is the first to address the measurement error that arises when time use during a single day – rather than average daily time use over an extended period – is...

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Who Profits from Amateurism? Rent-Sharing in Modern College Sports

Garthwaite, Craig - 2020

Intercollegiate amateur athletics in the US largely bars student-athletes from sharing in any of the profits generated by their participation, which creates substantial economic rents for universities. These rents are primarily generated by men's football and men's basketball programs. We...

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Gender Stereotyping in Sports

Marcén, Miriam - 2020

sources of data going back several decades to investigate how gender stereotypes and parental time investments shape sport … Association, which provides information for every state on the total number of high school participants by gender in each sport … making sport choices in high school. We also identify parental time investments as being an important cultural …

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Productivity and Health : Alternative Productivity Estimates Using Physical Activity

Akogun, Oladele - 2017

This paper investigates an alternative proxy for individual worker productivity in physical work settings: a direct measure of physical activity using an accelerometer. First, the paper compares worker labor outcomes, such as labor supply and daily productivity obtained from firm personnel data,...

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Do High School Sports Build or Reveal Character?

Ransom, Michael R. - 2017

We examine the extent to which participation in high school athletics has beneficial effects on future education, labor market, and health outcomes. Due to the absence of plausible instruments in observational data, we use recently developed methods that relate selection on observables with...

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Reference-Dependent Preferences : Evidence from Marathon Runners

Allen, Eric J. - 2014

Models of reference-dependent preferences propose that individuals evaluate outcomes as gains or losses relative to a neutral reference point. We test for reference dependence in a large dataset of marathon finishing times (n = 9,524,071). Models of reference-dependent preferences such as...

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The Impact of Participation in Sports on Educational Attainment : New Evidence from Germany

Cornelißen, Thomas - 2008

Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized ordered probit models to estimate the effect of participation in sport … into sport, we find strong evidence that the effect of sport on educational attainment is statistically significant and …

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