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PublicationType: journal articleJournal: Economics of Education ReviewVolume: 66
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PublicationSports and Child DevelopmentThe role of curricular activities for the formation of education, health and behavioural out- comes has been widely studied. Yet, the role of extra-curricular activities has received little attention. This study analyzes the effect of participation in sports clubs—one of the most popular extra-curricular activities among children. We use alternative datasets and flexible semi-parametric estimation methods with a specific way to use the panel dimension of the data to address selection into sports. We find positive and robust effects on children’s school performance and peer relations. Crowding out of passive leisure activities can par- tially explain the effects.Type: journal articleJournal: PLOS ONEVolume: 11Issue: 5
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PublicationRadius matching on the propensity score with bias adjustment: tuning parameters and finite sample behaviourUsing a simulation design that is based on empirical data, a recent study by Huber, Lechner and Wunsch (2012) finds that distance-weighted radius matching with bias adjustment as proposed in Lechner, Miquel and Wunsch (2011) is competitive among a broad range of propensity score-based estimators used to correct for mean differences due to observable covariates. In this paper, we further investigate the finite sample behaviour of radius matching with respect to various tuning parameters. The results are intended to help the practitioner to choose suitable values of these parame¬ters when using this method, which has been implemented as "radiusmatch" command in the software packages GAUSS, STATA and the R package "radiusmatching".Type: journal articleJournal: Empirical EconomicsVolume: 49
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PublicationThe closer the sportier? Children's sports activity and their distance to sports facilitiesWe investigate whether the distance between the next sports facilities and children's homes matter for their sports activities inside and outside of sports clubs. Our analysis is based on a large and informative cross-section of individual data on children and their families, the so-called German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents data. We use a semiparametric econometric method to investigate this relationship empirically. Our results suggest that while the distance does not matter in larger towns and cities, it does matter in smaller towns and in particular on the countryside.Type: journal articleJournal: European Review of Aging and Physical ActivityVolume: 8Issue: 2
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PublicationDie Österreicher/ -innen und der Wandel in der Arbeitswelt(Czernin, 2009)
;Biffl, Gudrun ;Renner, Katharina ;Okolowicz, Justyna ;Hamachers-Zuba, Ursula ;Hamachers-Zuba, Ursula ;Friesl, ChristianPolak, ReginaType: book section -
PublicationMigration - eine Herausforderung für das Schulsystem(Dr. Karl Kummer Institut. Verein für Sozial- und Wirtschaftspolitik, 2008-12-01)Type: newspaper articleJournal: Gesellschaft & PolitikVolume: 44Issue: 4
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PublicationDoes Exposure to Economics Bring New Majors to the Field? Evidence from a natural ExperimentThis study investigates how being exposed to a field of study influences students' major choices. We exploit a natural experiment at a Swiss university where all first-year students face largely the same curriculum before they choose a major. An important component of the first-year curriculum that varies between students involves a multi-term research paper in business, economics, or law. Due to oversubscription of business, the university assigns the field of the paper in a standardized way that is unrelated to student characteristics. We find that being assigned to write in economics raises the probability of majoring in economics by 2.7 percentage points, which amounts to 18 percent of the share of students who major in economics.