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Mozart or Pelé? The effects of teenagers’ participation in music and sports
Cabane, Charlotte; Hille, Adrian; Lechner, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this paper analyses the effects of spending part of adolescents’ leisure time on playing music or doing sports, or both. We find that while playing music fosters educational outcomes compared to doing sports, particularly so for girls and...
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Long-run Labour Market Effects of Individual Sports Activities
Lechner, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This microeconometric study analyzes the effects of individual leisure sports participation on long-term labour market variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being indicators for West Germany based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel study...
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Labor market effects of sports and exercise: Evidence from Canadian panel data
Lechner, Michael; Sari, Nazmi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on individual labor market outcomes. The data covers the period from 1994 to 2008. It is longitudinal and rich in life-style, health, and physical activity in-formation. Exploiting...
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Heterogeneous sports participation and labour market outcomes in England
Downward, Paul; Lechner, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 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...
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Naming & Shaming: The impacts of different regimes on hospital waiting times in England and Wales
Besley, Timothy J.; Bevan, Gwyn; Burchardi, Konrad B. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Improving accountability in public services has been a central objective of many public sector reforms in recent years. Chief among these have been efforts to generate observable performance measures as a basis for monitoring performance. This paper examines a natural experiment in regimes...
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The Cost of Binge Drinking
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We estimate the effect of binge drinking on accident and emergency attendances, road accidents, arrests, and the number of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation procedure. Our estimates, which reveal sizeable effects of...
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Evaluating the effect of ownership status on hospital quality: the key role of innovative procedures
Gobillon, Laurent; Milcent, Carine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Mortality differences between university, non-teaching public and for-profit hospitals are investigated using a French exhaustive administrative dataset on patients admitted for heart attack. Our results show that innovative procedures play a key role in explaining the effect of ownership status...
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Does Violent Crime Deter Physical Activity?
Janke, Katharina; Propper, Carol; Shields, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Crime has been argued to have important externalities. We investigate the relationship between violent crime and an important type of behaviour: individuals’ participation in their local area through walking and physical activity. We use a sample of nearly 1 million people residing in over 320...
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Scattered Trust - Did the 2007-08 financial crisis change risk perceptions?
Füss, Roland; Gehrig, Thomas; Rindler, Philipp B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
The paper investigates whether the financial crisis did affect risk perceptions, and, hence, change structural parameters. By decomposing credit spreads of US corporate bonds into the contributions by credit, equity, and liquidity risk factors as well as structural change, the relative...
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Fat City: Questioning the Relationship Between Urban Sprawl and Obesity
Eid, Jean; Overman, Henry G; Puga, Diego; Turner, Matthew A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We study the relationship between urban sprawl and obesity. Using data that tracks individuals over time, we find no … evidence that urban sprawl causes obesity. We show that previous findings of a positive relationship most likely reflect a … neighbourhoods. Our results indicate that current interest in changing the built environment to counter the rise in obesity is …
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