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Essays on sports participation, development, and educational outcomes.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Essays on sports participation, development, and educational outcomes./
Author:	Haskell, Devon.
Description:	97 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International73-11A(E).
Subject:	Economics, Labor. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3513656
ISBN:	9781267440532

Essays on sports participation, development, and educational outcomes.
Haskell, Devon.

Essays on sports participation, development, and educational outcomes. - 97 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2012.

This thesis is a compilation of three papers that study how various factors influence educational outcomes. The first paper, "The Benefits of Athletic Participation: Heterogeneous Effects on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes," focuses on sports participation in schools. It shows that athletic participants have higher GPAs, increased high school graduation rates, greater schooling attainment beyond high school, and higher wages compared to non-participants. In addition the gains from participation are concentrated in underachieving populations participating in team sports. This paper argues that improved outcomes arise from institutional performance incentives and the development of human capital.

ISBN: 9781267440532Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019135
Economics, Labor.

Essays on sports participation, development, and educational outcomes.
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520 $a This thesis is a compilation of three papers that study how various factors influence educational outcomes. The first paper, "The Benefits of Athletic Participation: Heterogeneous Effects on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes," focuses on sports participation in schools. It shows that athletic participants have higher GPAs, increased high school graduation rates, greater schooling attainment beyond high school, and higher wages compared to non-participants. In addition the gains from participation are concentrated in underachieving populations participating in team sports. This paper argues that improved outcomes arise from institutional performance incentives and the development of human capital.
520 $a The second paper, "The Influence of Height on Academic Outcomes," explores the relationship between height and educational achievement. Taller students earn higher grades, are more likely to graduate from high school, and attain more years of schooling. However, this height effect varies across school size: height has a stronger correlation with outcomes for students from bigger schools. These results imply that intelligence alone does not drive the association between height and outcomes. Differential access to activities such as school sports plays a role in driving these results.
520 $a Finally, the third paper, "The Effect of Menarche on Education: Explaining Black-White Differences," looks at the relationship between developmental timing in girls and their educational outcomes. A girl's developmental timing, marked by age at menarche, is strongly correlated with educational attainment. However, the direction of this correlation varies by race. Among the white population, delayed menarche is associated with improved educational outcomes while among the black population, it is associated with worse outcomes. Different responses to pregnancy driven by variance in marriage market quality across race can explain part of this relationship. Absent pregnancy, differing marriage patterns across race may also contribute to the trends between menarche and achievement. Evidence suggests that endogenous factors such as health, which influence both development and outcomes, can not explain the varying relationship between age at menarche and education across race.
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