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understood. This study fills part of this gap by analyzing the effect of sports club participation, one of the most popular extra …
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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 …
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This study is the first to present evidence of the return to leisure sports in the job hiring process by sending … given different information about their type and level of leisure sport being engaged in. Applications which signal sport … result is mainly driven by the return to sports as soccer and golf, and not at all by more fitness related sports as running …
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Crime has been argued to have important externalities. We investigate the relationship between violent crime and an important type of behaviour: individuals' participation in their local area through walking and physical activity. We use a sample of nearly 1 million people residing in over 320...
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effect of financial stability on sport achievements. The empirical analysis uses data of teams competing in the 1st division … responsibility implies better sport performance and higher chances to qualify for the Champions and Europa Leagues …
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This paper investigates the relationship between the probability of divorce and marriage specific investments. As these investments in terms of childcare and household activities are likely to increase the marital surplus, they are consequently likely to decrease the risk of divorce. All such...
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This paper explores the extent to which workers are willing to trade hours worked for leisure time shared with their spouse. This parameter is essential to properly assess contemporary trends in the regulation of work and leisure time. We use the fact that the number and timing of paid vacation...
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white. The rents are typically spent on coaches' salaries, facilities, and nonrevenue sports. Although athletic departments …
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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 …
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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 …
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