heterogeneity in the response to active athletic participation by race, gender and family structure, with boys not in dual …

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 …

starting point for the development of the economics of sport. While he recognised that certain features of professional sports … considerable debate amongst sports economists. In particular the assumption of profit maximisation has been challenged and a … divergence of views, reflected in the so-called North American and European models of sports leagues has emerged. Over the last …

women's tour. These results prevail throughout a series of extensions and robustness checks, highlighting gender differences … incentives are further increased. Finally, the market for sports betting does not seem to be aware of this phenomenon, suggesting …

this observation imply that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? We develop a series of noncooperative … assess the policy implications of these models. We find that targeting transfers to women can have unintended consequences … and may fail to make children better off. Moreover, different forms of empowering women may lead to opposite results. More …

suggest the mechanisms by which it operates? Measures of wages for men and women are an unreliable basis for study of gender … status of women. Although historically globalization is not generally linked to the advancement of women, several recent … country studies find export led growth in middle and low income countries is associated with improvements in women …

Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organized to examine the relationship between their output …

women in 1990 underestimated the true, selection-corrected gap, i.e., the gap we would have expected to see had all of these … women been employed in 1990. In this paper, we use the NLSY97 to update his analysis. The observed median log wage gap … considerable extent by changes in the distribution of educational attainment across young white and black women. …

This study investigates whether and when during the life cycle women fall behind in terms of career progression because … establishment as well as in combination with an establishment change. Women with children are 1.6 percentage points less likely … promoted than women without children; this is what we refer to as the family gap in climbing the career. We find that mothers …