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We report the results of a randomized controlled trial testing whether incentivizing physical exercise improves the academic performance of college students. As expected, the intervention increases physical activity. The main result is that it generates a strong and significant improvement in...
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This paper exploits a new source of variation in Head Start funding to identify the program's effects on health and schooling. In 1965 the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) provided technical assistance to the 300 poorest counties to develop Head Start proposals. The result was a large and...
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In recent years, many states, including California, Texas, and Oregon, have changed admissions policies to increase access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A key concern, however, is how these students will perform. This paper examines the relationship...
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We find an inverted relation between a player's birthday and the likelihood of receiving the Ballon d'Or (awarded to the best football player in the world). We develop a multi-period skill formation model with selection into elite education. We show that those born late (underdogs) need to work...
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Socio-Economic Panel, we explore whether local public expenditures on sports facilities influences individual labor market … sports in general and in any of the publicly funded sports facilities in particular. Moreover, improved well-being and health …
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Purpose - The purpose of this study is to single out the key variables in the sport sponsorship relationship, and more … involved in the sports club and in basketball in general. As a result, the overall accuracy of the identified sponsors may have … that the results came from only one type of sport and also from sport fans of a specific club, makes their generalization …
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Globalisation affects not only politics and the economy, but also sport, which has become significantly more … enter and win international competitions, although richer nations retain advantages. All in all, globalisation of sports is …Die Globalisierung betrifft nicht nur Politik und Wirtschaft, sondern auch den Sport, der viel internationaler …
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Sport ist eine bedeutende und langfristig wachsende Branche. Es werden Trends innerhalb des Sports und für zukünftige …Sport is an important and long-term growing industry. Trends in sports and for future employees are highlighted. …
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Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper we interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents'...
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