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This microeconometric study analyzes the effects of individual leisure sports participation on long-term labour market … their own level of sports activities are tackled by combining informative data and flexible semiparametric estimation … methods with a specific way to use the panel dimension of the data. The paper shows that sports activities have sizeable …
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We here ask whether sports participation at school is positively correlated with adult labour-market outcomes. There … to two widely-separated waves of Add Health data to map out the correlation between school sports and adult labour …-market outcomes. We show that different types of school sports are associated with different types of jobs and labour-market insertion …
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We here ask whether sports participation at school is positively correlated with adult labour-market outcomes. There … to two widely-separated waves of Add Health data to map out the correlation between school sports and adult labourmarket … outcomes. We show that different types of school sports are associated with different types of jobs and labour-market insertion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700342
' leisure time on playing music or doing sports, or both. We find that while playing music fosters educational outcomes compared … to doing sports, particularly so for girls and children from more highly educated families, doing sports improves …
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In response to declining budgets, many school districts in the US have reduced funding for sports. In Europe, parents … may respond to difficult economic times by spending less on sports clubs for their children. Such cuts are unwise if … participating in sports is an investment good as well as a consumption good and adds to students' human capital. The value of sports …
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Higher wages for employees who are more active in sports have been demonstrated empirically several times before. They … (GSOEP), this study analyses whether active participation in sports fosters occupational promotion or the transfer of … significantly higher for individuals that participate more often in sports. Furthermore, personality traits that are more …
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Recent experimental evidence suggests that women in general are more discouraged than men by failures which potentially can explain why women, on average, are less likely than men to reach top positions in firms. This paper provides the first quasi-experimental evidence from the field on this...
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Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on …-run income effects. However, an activity level above the current recommendation of the WHO for minimum physical activity is …
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Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on …-run income effects. However, an activity level above the current recommendation of the WHO for minimum physical activity is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250155