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Getting a Sporting Chance: Title IX and the Intergenerational Transmission of Health

Schulkind, Lisa - Department of Economics, Trinity College - 2013

We know that healthier mothers tend to have healthier infants, but we do not know how much of that relationship reflects the intergenerational transmission of genetic attributes versus environmental influences. From a policy perspective, it is crucial to understand which environmental influences...

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For the Love of the Game: The Length of Athletic Careers in Ivy League Sports and the Title IX Controversy

Coate, Douglas; Vanderhoff, James - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-Newark - 2015

We present evidence on the length of athletic careers in a number of varsity sports for male and female athletes in the Ivy League. We argue that the number of years that these athletes choose to compete reflects their interest and commitment to their sport and is relevant to the Title IX...

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The Effects of Female Sports Participation On Alcohol Behavior

Wilde, Elizabeth - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2008

Most existing research on the effects of girls’ participation in high school sports focuses on short term outcomes without accounting for selection effects. In this research, I examine the effect of athletic participation in high school on longer term outcomes, using Title IX as a source of...

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Differences by race and ethnicity in title IX's effect on women's health

Beck, Delaney; Hersch, Joni; Viscusi, W. Kip - In: Journal of benefit-cost analysis : JBCA 14 (2023) 3, pp. 437-450

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Obesity and happiness

Katsaiti, Marina-Selini - 2010

This paper provides insight on the relationship between obesity and happiness. Using the latest available cross … that in all three countries obesity has a negative and significant effect on the subjective well being of individuals. For …

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Overweight and obesity in low- and middle income countries : a panel-data analysis

Minos, Dimitrios - 2016

The rather small literature on obesity in developing countries mainly uses descriptive statistics and cross section … analysis to focus on rising income levels as the source of rapidly increasing obesity rates. This paper uses a new panel … the main driver of rising obesity levels. The results of the fixed effects estimation suggest that urbanization and …

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"Eat, my child" - overweight and obesity among children in developing countries

Minos, Dimitrios - 2016

Childhood obesity in developing countries is a topic that hasn’t found its way in the economic literature yet. Despite … the fact that obesity rates are rising worldwide and the phenomenon is very present even among the poorest of households …

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Weight loss and sexual activity in adult obese individuals : establishing a causal link

Reichert, Arndt R.; Tauchmann, Harald; Wübker, Ansgar - 2015

Obesity may not only be linked to undesirable health outcomes but also to limitations in sexual life. The present paper …. Conditional on having already lost some weight, a further reduction in obesity also increases the frequency of sexual intercourse. …

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Declining nutient intake in a growing China : does household heterogeneity matter?

You, Jing; Imai, Katsushi S.; Gaiha, Raghav - 2015 - Rev. ed.

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Peer effects on obesity in a sample of European children

Gwozdz, Wencke; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Reisch, Lucia A.; … - 2015

This study analyzes peer effects on childhood obesity using data from the first two waves of the IDEFICS study, which …

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