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Colman, Greg - 2013

While the link between physical activity and health has been studied, there are several limitations that persist in this literature relating to external and internal validity of the estimates, potential measurement error in self-reported weight and risk factors, failure to account for physical...

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Evidence on the Efficacy of School-Based Incentives for Healthy Living

Cuffe, Harold E. - 2011

We analyze the effects of a school-based incentive program on children's exercise habits. The program offers children an opportunity to win prizes if they walk or bike to school during prize periods. We use daily child-level data and individual fixed effects models to measure the impact of the...

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Exercise, Physical Activity, and Exertion Over the Business Cycle

Colman, Greg - 2011

As economic recessions reduce employment and wages, associated shifts in time and income constraints would be expected to also impact individuals' health behaviors. Prior work has focused exclusively on recreational exercise, which typically represents only about 4% of total daily physical...

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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 … sports, a proxy for expanded athletic opportunities for adolescent females, were associated with an increase in physical …

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No Time to Lose? Time Constraints and Physical Activity

Mullahy, John - 2010

Although individuals are all endowed with the same time budgets, time use patterns differ owing to heterogeneity in preferences and constraints. In today's health policy arena there is considerable discussion about how to improve health outcomes by increasing levels of physical activity. In this...

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Incentives, Commitments and Habit Formation in Exercise : Evidence from a Field Experiment with Workers at a Fortune-500 Company

Royer, Heather - 2012

Financial incentives have been shown to have strong positive short‐run effects for problematic health behaviors, but the effects often disappear once incentive programs end. This paper analyzes the results of a large‐scale workplace field experiment to examine whether self‐funded...

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Racial, Ethnic and Gender Differences in Physical Activity

Saffer, Henry - 2011

This study examines racial, ethnic and gender differentials in physical activity. Individuals engage in physical activity during leisure-time and also during in many other activities such as walking to work, home maintenance, shopping and child care. Physical activity also occurs on the job is...

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The Impact of State Physical Education Requirements on Youth Physical Activity and Overweight

Cawley, John H.; Meyerhoefer, Chad D.; Newhouse, David Locke - 2021

To combat childhood overweight, which has risen dramatically in the past three decades, many medical and public health organizations have called for students to spend more time in physical education (PE) classes. This paper is the first to exploit state PE requirements as quasi-natural...

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

Courtemanche, Charles; Pinkston, Joshua C.; Stewart, … - 2022

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 used...

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One Size Does Not Fit All : Multiple Dimensions of Ability, College Attendance and Wages

Prada, Maria F. - 2014

We investigate the role of mechanical ability as another dimension that, jointly with cognitive and socio-emotional, affects schooling decisions and labor market outcomes. Using a Roy model with a factor structure and data from the NLSY79, we show that the labor market positively rewards...

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