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The IOC's midas touch : Summer Olympics and city growth
Nitsch, Volker; Wendland, Nicolai - 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/10009785998
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Hooliganism in the shadow of the 9/11 terrorist attack and the Tsunami : do police reduce group violence?
Poutvaara, Panu (contributor); Priks, Mikael (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003462089
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003938718
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Do surveillance cameras affect unruly behavior? : a close look at grandstands
Priks, Mikael (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003688934
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Title IX and the evolution of high school sports
Stevenson, Betsey (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003624542
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Sports and child development
Felfe, Christina; Lechner, Michael; Steinmayr, Andreas - 2011 - This draft: October 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/10009375249
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010375168
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010383237
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Heterogeneous sports participation and labour market outcomes in England
Lechner, Michael; Downward, Paul - 2013 - This version: October 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 associations between labour market outcomes and sports participation are established …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199753
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Labor market effects of sports and exercise : evidence from Canadian panel data
Lechner, Michael; Sari, Nazmi - 2014
Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250155