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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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Sports and Child Development

Felfe, Christina - 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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The Impact of Participation in Sports on Educational Attainment : New Evidence from Germany

Cornelißen, Thomas - 2008

We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical … 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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Do Economic Incentives Promote Physical Activity? Evidence from the London Congestion Charge

Nakamura, Ryota; Albanese, Andrea; Coombes, Emma; … - 2022

This study investigates the impact of economic incentives on travel-related physical activity, leveraging the London Congestion Charge's disincentivising of sedentary travel modes via increasing the cost of private car use within Central London. The scheme imposes charges on most types of cars...

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Work Out or Out of Work : The Labor Market Return to Physical Fitness and Leisure Sport Activities

Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2010

This study is the first to present evidence of the return to leisure sports in the job hiring process by sending … given different information about their type and level of leisure sport being engaged in. Applications which signal sport … result is mainly driven by the return to sports as soccer and golf, and not at all by more fitness related sports as running …

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Labor Market Effects of Sports and Exercise : Evidence from Canadian Panel Data

Lechner, Michael - 2014

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

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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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Does Schooling Affect Health Behavior? Evidence from the Educational Expansion in Western Germany

Jürges, Hendrik - 2010

During the postwar period German states pursued policies to increase the share of young Germans obtaining a university entrance diploma (Abitur) by building more academic track schools, but the timing of educational expansion differed between states. This creates exogenous variation in the...

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How to Reduce Discrimination? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Amateur Soccer

Dur, Robert A. J.; Gomez-Gonzalez, Carlos; Nesseler, Cornel - 2022

A rich literature shows that ethnic discrimination is an omnipresent and highly persistent phenomenon. Little is known, however, about how to reduce discrimination. This study reports the results of a large-scale field experiment we ran together with the Norwegian Football Federation. The...

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Top‐Down vs. Bottom‐Up : The Long‐Term Impact of Government Ideology and Personal Experience on Values

Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2013

sports. We apply the German Reunification Approach to the microcosm of Berlin and exploit its 40‐year long division into a … doping activities that became public in reunified Germany in the 1990s. Our findings demonstrate that even after half the … extramural sports experience and age are equally strong predictors of individual attitudes and beliefs, especially in interaction …

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