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The Effects of High School Athletic Participation on Education and Labor Market Outcomes

Author(s) -

John M. Barron,

Bradley T. Ewing,

Glen R. Waddell

Publication year - 2000

Publication title -

the review of economics and statistics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 8.999

H-Index - 165

eISSN - 1530-9142

pISSN - 0034-6535

DOI - 10.1162/003465300558902

Subject(s) - national longitudinal surveys , educational attainment , context (archaeology) , value (mathematics) , variety (cybernetics) , longitudinal data , economics , demographic economics , labour economics , longitudinal study , psychology , sociology , economic growth , medicine , demography , paleontology , pathology , machine learning , artificial intelligence , computer science , biology

We introduce a simple allocation-of-time model to explain the high school athletic participation choice and the implications of this choice for educational and labor market outcomes. Four different factors that could explain athletic participation are identified in the context of this model. A variety of tests of the model are provided using two data sets: the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972. We find some evidence that athletic participation directly affects wages and educational attainment. However, much of the effect of athletic participation on wages and educational attainment appears to reflect differences across individuals in ability or value of leisure. © 2000 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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