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Effects of Title Ix and Sports Participation on Girls' Physical Activity and Weight
Kaestner, Robert - 2010
In this study, we examined the association between girls%u2019 participation in high school sports and the physical … activity, weight, body mass and body composition of adolescent females during the 1970s when girls%u2019 sports participation … sports, a proxy for expanded athletic opportunities for adolescent females, were associated with an increase in physical …
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Who Profits from Amateurism? Rent-Sharing in Modern College Sports
Garthwaite, Craig - 2020
rents flow to women's sports and other men's sports and lead to increased spending on facilities, coaches' salaries, and … other athletic department personnel. Using complete roster data for every student-athlete playing sports at these schools in … collective bargaining agreements in professional sports leagues as a benchmark. We also discuss how our results help understand …
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The Impact of Athletic Performance on Alumni Giving : An Analysis of Micro Data
Meer, Jonathan - 2010
An ongoing controversy in the literature on the economics of higher education centers on whether the success of a school's athletic program affects alumni donations. This paper uses a unique data set to investigate this issue. The data contain detailed information about donations made by alumni...
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The Promise of Beijing : Evaluating the Impact of the 2008 Olympic Games on Air Quality
Chen, Yuyu - 2011
To prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games, China adopted a number of radical measures to improve air quality. Using officially reported air pollution index (API) from 2000 to 2009, we show that these measures improved the API of Beijing during and after the Games, but 60% of the effect faded away by...
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Are Big-Time Sports a Threat to Student Achievement?
Lindo, Jason M. - 2011
We consider the relationship between collegiate-football success and non-athlete student performance. We find that the team's success significantly reduces male grades relative to female grades. This phenomenon is only present in fall quarters, which coincides with the football season. Using...
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Evidence on the Efficacy of School-Based Incentives for Healthy Living
Cuffe, Harold E. - 2011
We analyze the effects of a school-based incentive program on children's exercise habits. The program offers children an opportunity to win prizes if they walk or bike to school during prize periods. We use daily child-level data and individual fixed effects models to measure the impact of the...
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Racial, Ethnic and Gender Differences in Physical Activity
Saffer, Henry - 2011
This study examines racial, ethnic and gender differentials in physical activity. Individuals engage in physical activity during leisure-time and also during in many other activities such as walking to work, home maintenance, shopping and child care. Physical activity also occurs on the job is...
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Exercise, Physical Activity, and Exertion Over the Business Cycle
Colman, Greg - 2011
As economic recessions reduce employment and wages, associated shifts in time and income constraints would be expected to also impact individuals' health behaviors. Prior work has focused exclusively on recreational exercise, which typically represents only about 4% of total daily physical...
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Incentives, Commitments and Habit Formation in Exercise : Evidence from a Field Experiment with Workers at a Fortune-500 Company
Royer, Heather - 2012
Financial incentives have been shown to have strong positive short‐run effects for problematic health behaviors, but the effects often disappear once incentive programs end. This paper analyzes the results of a large‐scale workplace field experiment to examine whether self‐funded...
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Does March Madness Lead to Irrational Exuberance in the NBA Draft? High-Value Employee Selection Decisions and Decision-Making Bias
Ichniowski, Casey - 2012
Using a detailed personally-assembled data set on the performance of collegiate and professional basketball players over the 1997-2010 period, we conduct a very direct test of two questions. Does performance in the NCAA "March Madness" college basketball tournament affect NBA teams' draft...
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