the effect of sports activity on health. OLS models show that sports activity significantly decreases overweight, sleeping … problems, headaches, back problems, and perceived health impediments in everyday activities and significantly increases health … satisfaction. Because sports activity is likely to be misreported and correlated with unobserved determinants of health, we use the …

health of individuals (as measured by the height of conscripts) and its disparities between individuals and regions in Italy …", that is I hypothesize that exposure to malaria in utero or during childhood has persistent effects on health. Periods under … scrutiny in this paper are the last two decades of the XIX century, a period without major public health interventions, and the …