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Physical Activity : Economic and Policy Factors

McInnes, Melayne M. - 2009

While much research has focused on the costs of obesity and economic factors that drive obesity growth, little economic research has examined the factors that contribute to obesity -- physical inactivity and poor nutrition. This paper will examine correlates and predictors of physical activity...

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Interracial Workplace Cooperation : Evidence from the NBA

Price, Joseph - 2009

Using data from the National Basketball Association (NBA), we examine whether patterns of workplace cooperation occur disproportionately among workers of the same race. We find that, holding constant the composition of teammates on the floor, basketball players are no more likely to complete an...

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No Time to Lose? Time Constraints and Physical Activity

Mullahy, John - 2008

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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Effects of Title IX and Sports Participation on Girls' Physical Activity and Weight

Kaestner, Robert - 2006

In this study, we examined the association between girls' participation in high school sports and the physical activity …, weight, body mass and body composition of adolescent females during the 1970s when girls' sports participation was … dramatically increasing as a result of Title IX. We found that increases in girls' participation in high school sports, a proxy for …

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

Cawley, John - 2005

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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Athletes Greatly Benefit from Participation in Sports at the College and Secondary Level

Heckman, James J.; Loughlin, Colleen P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

participation in sports for student athletes. Anecdotes about the exploitation of student athletes were cited in the opinion. This …

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The Long-Run Effects of Sports Club Vouchers for Primary School Children

Marcus, Jan; Siedler, Thomas; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders … sports club membership, physical activity, overweightness, or motor skills …

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Reference-Dependent Preferences : Evidence from Marathon Runners

Allen, Eric J. - 2014

Models of reference-dependent preferences propose that individuals evaluate outcomes as gains or losses relative to a neutral reference point. We test for reference dependence in a large dataset of marathon finishing times (n = 9,524,071). Models of reference-dependent preferences such as...

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Physical Activity and Health

Colman, Gregory J. - 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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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 commitment...

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