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Sports and Child Development
Felfe, 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/10013118274
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Gender Stereotyping in Sports
Marcén, Miriam - 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/10012828589
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A Simple Theory of Industry Location and Residence Choice
Borck, Rainald; Pflüger, Michael; Wrede, Matthias - 2021
Within an efficiency wage framework, we study the effects of two revenue-neutral tax reforms that change the progressivity of the labour tax system. A revenue-neutral increase in both the wage tax and tax exemption and a revenue-neutral change in the composition of labour taxation towards the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316969
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Trade and Location with Land as a Productive Factor
Pflüger, Michael; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - 2021
This paper is motivated by the fact that, contrary to its importance in practice, the role of land for production has received no attention in the new trade theory and the new economic geography. We set up a simple monopolistic competition model and we show that, due to the factor proportions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324954
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Corporate Sports Activity and Work Morale : Evidence from a Japanese Automobile Maker
Sasaki, Masaru - 2013
This paper estimates the factors affecting the relationship between the wins and losses of corporate sports club teams … that corporate sports club teams' performance is an important factor influencing the work morale of older employees and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071286
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Heterogeneous Sports Participation and Labour Market Outcomes in England
Lechner, Michael - 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/10013073845
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Sabotage in Tournaments : Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment
Harbring, Christine - 2009
Although relative performance schemes are pervasive in organizations reliable empirical data on induced sabotage behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in a controlled laboratory experiment and are able to confirm one of the key insights from theory: effort and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158876
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Time Spent Exercising and Obesity : An Application of Lewbel's Instrumental Variables Method
Courtemanche, Charles - 2020
This paper examines the role physical activity plays in determining body mass using data from the American Time Use Survey. Our work is the first to address the measurement error that arises when time use during a single day – rather than average daily time use over an extended period – is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843172
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The Impact of Participation in Sports on Educational Attainment : New Evidence from Germany
Cornelißen, Thomas - 2008
We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical … Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized ordered probit models to estimate the effect of participation in sport … into sport, we find strong evidence that the effect of sport on educational attainment is statistically significant and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773227
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Productivity and Health : Alternative Productivity Estimates Using Physical Activity
Akogun, Oladele - 2017
This paper investigates an alternative proxy for individual worker productivity in physical work settings: a direct measure of physical activity using an accelerometer. First, the paper compares worker labor outcomes, such as labor supply and daily productivity obtained from firm personnel data,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943703