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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,...
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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 …
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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...
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Does Schooling Affect Health Behavior? Evidence from the Educational Expansion in Western Germany
Jürges, Hendrik - 2010
During the postwar period German states pursued policies to increase the share of young Germans obtaining a university entrance diploma (Abitur) by building more academic track schools, but the timing of educational expansion differed between states. This creates exogenous variation in the...
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Quantifying the Intangible Impact of the Olympics Using Subjective Well-Being Data
Dolan, Paul - 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/10012863807
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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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Do High School Sports Build or Reveal Character?
Ransom, Michael R. - 2017
We examine the extent to which participation in high school athletics has beneficial effects on future education, labor market, and health outcomes. Due to the absence of plausible instruments in observational data, we use recently developed methods that relate selection on observables with...
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Do Economic Incentives Promote Physical Activity? Evidence from the London Congestion Charge
Nakamura, Ryota; Albanese, Andrea; Coombes, Emma; … - 2022
This study investigates the impact of economic incentives on travel-related physical activity, leveraging the London Congestion Charge's disincentivising of sedentary travel modes via increasing the cost of private car use within Central London. The scheme imposes charges on most types of cars...
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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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Sabotage in Tournaments : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Balafoutas, Loukas - 2012
Many tournaments are plagued by sabotage among competitors. Typically, sabotage is welfare-reducing, but from an individual's perspective an attractive alternative to exerting positive effort. Yet, given its illegal and often immoral nature, sabotage is typically hidden, making it difficult to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110864