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Labor Market Effects of Sports and Exercise: Evidence from Canadian Panel Data
Lechner, Michael; Sari, Nazmi - CESifo - 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 information. Exploiting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747213
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Heterogeneous Sports Participation and Labour Market Outcomes in England
Lechner, Michael; Downward, Paul - CESifo - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877937
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Labor Market Effects of Sports and Exercise : Evidence from Canadian Panel Data
Lechner, Michael - 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 information. Exploiting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057258
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Heterogeneous Sports Participation and Labour Market Outcomes in England
Lechner, Michael; Downward, Paul M. - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315710
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The Trend of BMI Values by Centiles of US Adults, Birth Cohorts 1882-1986
Komlos, John; Brabec, Marek - CESifo - 2010
Trends in BMI values are estimated by centiles of the US adult population by birth cohorts 1886-1986 stratified by … merely 1 to 3 units. Hence, the BMI distribution became increasingly right skewed as the distance between the centiles became … increasingly larger. The rate of change of BMI centile curves varied considerably over time. The BMI of white men and women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511601
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The Trend of BMI Values among US Adults
Komlos, John; Brabec, Marek - CESifo - 2010
regression models to estimate age and trend effects of BMI values of US-born black and white adults measured between 1959 and …Background: The trend in the BMI values of the US population has not been estimated accurately because time series data … change of BMI values by birth cohorts stratified by gender and ethnicity born 1882-1986.Methods: We use loess additive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572522
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Evaluating Nationwide Health Interventions when Standard Before-After Doesn't Work: Malawi's ITN Distribution Program
Deuchert, Eva; Wunsch, Conny - CESifo - 2010
Nationwide health interventions are difficult to evaluate as contemporaneous control groups do not exist and before-after approaches are usually infeasible. We propose an alternative semi-parametric estimator that is based on the assumption that the intervention has no direct effect on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572497
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Evaluating Nationwide Health Interventions When Standard Before-After Doesn't Work : Malawi's ITN Distribution Program
Deuchert, Eva - 2010
Nationwide health interventions are difficult to evaluate as contemporaneous control groups do not exist and before-after approaches are usually infeasible. We propose an alternative semi-parametric estimator that is based on the assumption that the intervention has no direct effect on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144025
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The Cost of Binge Drinking
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - CESifo - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167139
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Seasonality in Smoking Behaviour: Re-evaluating the Effects of the 2005 Public Smoking Ban in Italy
Bono, Emilia Del; Grünberger, Klaus; Vuri, Daniela - CESifo - 2014
This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on smoking prevalence and consumption in the general population....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011082833