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Estimated costs of contact in college and high school male sports
Fair, Ray C.; Champa, Christopher - 2017 - Revised October 2017
Injury rates in twelve U.S. men’s college sports and five U.S. boys' high school sports are examined in this paper. The … sports are categorized as "contact" or "non-contact," and differences in injury rates between the two are examined. Injury … rates in the contact sports are considerably higher than those in the non-contact sports and they are on average more severe …
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Exercise improves academic performance
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Charness, Gary; Ekström, Mathias; … - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011729579
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Exercise improves academic performance
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Charness, Gary; Ekström, Mathias; … - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917056
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Sports at work : anticipated and persistent correlates of participation in high school athletics
Kniffin, Kevin M.; Wansink, Brian; Shimizu, Mitsuru - In: Journal of leadership & organizational studies : JLOS; … 22 (2015) 2, pp. 217-230
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Estimated costs of contact in college and high school male sports
Fair, Ray C.; Champa, Christopher - In: Journal of sports economics 20 (2019) 5, pp. 690-717
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943706
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Do high school sports build or reveal character?
Ransom, Michael R.; Ransom, Tyler - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011743652
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Professional Sporting Events and Traffic : Evidence from US Cities
Humphreys, Brad R. - 2017
Sporting events concentrate people at specific locations on game day. No empirical evidence currently exists linking sporting events to local traffic conditions. We analyze urban mobility data from 25 US metropolitan areas with MLB teams over the period 1990 to 2014 to assess the relationship...
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Lack of Integrity? Rebutting the Myth that U.S. Commercial Sports Leagues Have an Intellectual Property Right to Sports Gambling Proceeds
Edelman, Marc - 2018
Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (“PASPA”) violated the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and thus the U ….S. government may not use PASPA to prevent states from legalizing commercial sports gambling. In anticipation of this ruling, four U ….S. states have already passed new laws to legalize and regulate sports gambling. Meanwhile, fifteen states currently have sports …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915927
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The effects of participation in high school athletics and the national honor society on future earnings
Gius, Mark P. - In: Review of applied economics 7 (2011) 1/2, pp. 69-80
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