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Injury rates in thirteen U.S. women’s college sports and four U.S. girls’ high school sports are examined in this paper …. The sports are categorized as high injury (H) or low injury (L) and differences in injury rates between the two are … examined. Estimates are presented of the injury savings that would result if the H sports were changed to have injury rates …
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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...
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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...
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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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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 …
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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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