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

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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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Do surveillance cameras affect unruly behavior? : a close look at grandstands

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Title IX and the evolution of high school sports

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Sports and child development

Felfe, Christina; Lechner, Michael; Steinmayr, Andreas - 2011 - This draft: October 2011

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

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

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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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Heterogeneous sports participation and labour market outcomes in England

Lechner, Michael; Downward, Paul - 2013 - This version: October 2013

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Labor market effects of sports and exercise : evidence from Canadian panel data

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We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment and relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found to be significant predictors of...

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