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

Courtemanche, Charles J. - 2020

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 as...

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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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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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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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Who Wins the Olympic Games : Economic Development and Medal Totals

Bernard, Andrew B. - 2000

This paper examines determinants of Olympic success at the country level. Does the U.S. win its fair share of Olympic medals? Why does China win 6% of the medals even though it has 1/5 of the world's population? We consider the role of population and economic development in determining medal...

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Who Profits From Amateurism? Rent-Sharing in Modern College Sports

Garthwaite, Craig - 2020

rents flow to women's sports and other men's sports and lead to increased spending on facilities, coaches' salaries, and … other athletic department personnel. Using complete roster data for every student-athlete playing sports at these schools in … collective bargaining agreements in professional sports leagues as a benchmark. We also discuss how our results help understand …

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Estimation of a Dynamic Model of Weight

Ng, Shu Wen - 2010

The ongoing debate about the economic causes of obesity has focused on the changing relative prices of diet and exercise. This paper uses a model that explicitly includes time and spatially varying community-level urbanicity and price measures as instruments to obtain statistically correct...

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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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