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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 …
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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 associations between labour market outcomes and sports participation are established …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315710
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Do Economic Crises Lead Tourists to Closer Destinations? An Analysis of Italy's Regional Data
Cafiso, Gianluca - 2015
Italy's domestic tourism flows during the recent years of economic recession. Indeed, the occurrence of closer tourism … dataset is made of inter-regional tourism flows among Italian regions over the 2000-12 period; across this period, 2008 to …
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Lift and Shift : The Effect of Fundraising Interventions in Charity Space and Time
Scharf, Kimberley A. - 2017
Fundraising interventions may lift donations and/or shift their composition and timing, making it important to study their effect across charity space and time. We find that major fundraising appeals lift total donations, but surprisingly shift donations to other charities across time. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943156
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On the Design of Education Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and Non Education Outcomes : The Case of Teenage Pregnancy
Cortes, Darwin F.; Gallego, Juan Miguel; Maldonado, Dario - 2021
We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern is with how the size and sign of the effect may depend on the design of the program. Using a simple model we show that an education CCT that conditions renewal on school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315991
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The Penalty-Duel and Institutional Design: Is there a Neeskens-Effect?
Leininger, Wolfgang; Ockenfels, Axel - CESifo - 2008
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181276
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Do Economic Crises Lead Tourists to Closer Destinations? An Analysis of Italy's Regional Data
Cafiso, Gianluca; Cellini, Roberto; Cuccia, Tiziana - CESifo - 2015
Italy’s domestic tourism flows during the recent years of economic recession. Indeed, the occurrence of closer tourism … dataset is made of inter-regional tourism flows among Italian regions over the 2000-12 period; across this period, 2008 to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011202961
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Sports and Child Development
Felfe, Andrea Christina - 2011
understood. This study fills part of this gap by analyzing the effect of sports club participation, one of the most popular extra …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118501
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Nineteenth Century White Physical Activity and Calories : Socioeconomic Status and Diets
Carson, Scott A. - 2014
Using data from late 19th and early 20th century US prisons, this study estimates the basal metabolic rates and calories for Americans of European descent. Throughout the 19th century, white basal metabolic rates (BMRs) and calories declined across their respective distributions, and much of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050417
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The IOC's Midas Touch : Summer Olympics and City Growth
Nitsch, Volker - 2013
Hosting a mega-event is a costly activity of short duration. Still, cities frequently compete to become host of all types of events. This paper examines the effect of staging the largest and most important sporting event in the world, the Summer Olympic Games, on the host city. Applying a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076734