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Quantifying the intangible impact of the olympics using subjective well-being data
Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 2019
Hosting the Olympic Games costs billions of taxpayer dollars. Following a quasi- experimental setting, this paper assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of 26,000 residents in London, Paris, and Berlin during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012063244
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What can life satisfaction data tell us about discrimination against sexual minorities? : a structural equation model for Australia and the United Kingdom
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Wooden, Mark - 2014
to estimate a simultaneous equations model of life satisfaction. The model allows for self-reported sexual identity to … influence a measure of life satisfaction both directly and indirectly through seven different channels: (i) income; (ii …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010345535
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Mozart or Pelé? : the effects of teenagers' participation in music and sports
Cabane, Charlotte; Hille, Adrian; Lechner, Michael - 2015
' leisure time on playing music or doing sports, or both. We find that while playing music fosters educational outcomes compared … to doing sports, particularly so for girls and children from more highly educated families, doing sports improves …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510696
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The long-run effects of sports club vouchers for primary school children
Marcus, Jan; Siedler, Thomas; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2021
Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders … sports club membership, physical activity, overweightness, or motor skills. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012494192
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For better or worse? : the effects of physical education on child development
Knaus, Michael C.; Lechner, Michael; Reimers, Anne - 2018
This study analyses the effects of regular physical education at school on cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, motor skills, physical activity, and health. It is based on a very informative data set, the German Motorik-Modul, and identifies the effect by using variation in the required...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785803
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The effect of non-cognitive traits on health behaviours in adolescence
Mendolia, Silvia; Walker, Ian - 2013
; unprotected and early sexual activity; and sports and physical activity. We use matching methods to control for a very rich set of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009727667
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Are voluntary agreements better? : evidence from baseball arbitration
Budd, John W.; Sojourner, Aaron J.; Jung, Jaewoo - 2014
This paper empirically examines the widespread belief that voluntarily negotiated agreements produce better long-run relationships than third-party imposed settlements, such as arbitrator decisions or court judgments. Two key outcomes are analyzed - subsequent player performance and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342436
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Gender stereotyping in sports
Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina; Sevilla, Almudena - 2020
sources of data going back several decades to investigate how gender stereotypes and parental time investments shape sport … Association, which provides information for every state on the total number of high school participants by gender in each sport … making sport choices in high school. We also identify parental time investments as being an important cultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249442
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Desperately seeking a Japanese Yokozuna
Brunello, Giorgio; Yamamura, Eiji - 2023
traditional sport. We show that, especially since 2010, foreign-born wrestlers trying to attain the second highest rank in Sumo …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014419245
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Too busy for school? : the effect of athletic participation on absenteeism
Cuffe, Harold E.; Waddell, Glen R.; Bignell, Wesley - 2014
While existing research supports that participation in high-school athletics is associated with better education and labour-market outcomes, the mechanisms through which these benefits accrue are not well established. We use data from a large public-school district to retrieve an estimate of the...
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