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Beyond the classroom : using title IX to measure the return to high school sports

Stevenson, Betsey - 2010

expansion in female sports participation by using variation in the level of boys' athletic participation across states before … changes between pre- and post-cohorts reveals that a 10-percentage point rise in state-level female sports participation … participation. Furthermore, greater opportunities to play sports leads to greater female participation in previously male …

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Nineteenth century black and mulatto physical activity, calories, and life expectancy

Carson, Scott Alan - 2014

Using data from late 19th and early 20th century US prisons, this study considers how black and mulatto basal metabolic rates and calories varied with economic development. During the 19th century, black physical activity and net nutrition declined during the late 19th and early 20th centuries...

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Nineteenth century white physical activity and calories : socioeconomic status and diets

Carson, Scott Alan - 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...

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Title IX and the evolution of high school sports

Stevenson, Betsey (contributor) - 2007

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International banking and cross-border effects of regulation : lessons from the United States

Berróspide, José M.; Correa, Ricardo; Goldberg, Linda S. - 2016

Domestic prudential regulation can have unintended effects across borders and may be less effective in an environment where banks operate globally. Using U.S. micro-banking data for the first quarter of 2000 through the third quarter of 2013, this study shows that some regulatory changes indeed...

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Market liquidity after the financial crisis

Adrian, Tobias; Fleming, Michael J.; Shachar, Or; Vogt, Erik - 2017 - Revised June 2017

This paper examines market liquidity in the post-crisis era in light of concerns that regulatory changes might have reduced dealers' ability and willingness to make markets. We begin with a discussion of the broader trading environment, including an overview of regulations and their potential...

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A new survey of the U.S. bilateral repo market : a snapshot of broker-dealer activity

Baklanova, Viktoria; Caglio, Cecilia; Cipriani, Marco; … - 2016

We provide aggregate statistics on U.S. dealers' bilateral repurchase agreements and economically equivalent securities lending activities. The data were collected from the U.S.-affiliated securities dealers of nine bank holding companies under a voluntary pilot program run by the Office of...

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Back to Kyoto? : US participation and the linkage between R&D and climate cooperation

Buchner, Barbara; Carraro, Carlo; Cersosimo, Igor; … - 2002

The US decision not to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and the recent outcomes of the Bonn and Marrakech Conferences of the Parties drastically reduces the effectiveness of the Kyoto Protocol in controlling GHG emissions. The reason is not only the reduced emission abatement in the US, but also the...

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The X tax in the world economy

Bradford, David F. - 2004

This paper considers the treatment of multinational business in the system known as an X Tax. The focus is on the choice between origin and destination treatments of transborder transactions. The destination-principle approach sidesteps the transferpricing problem. It remains in the...

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Does drawing down the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve help stabilize oil prices?

Kilian, Lutz; Zhou, Xiaoqing - 2019 - This version: July 9, 2019

We study the efficacy of releases from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) within the context of fully specified models of the global oil market that explicitly allow for storage demand as well as unanticipated changes in the SPR. Using novel identifying strategies and evaluation methods,...

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