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

By John M. Barron, Bradley T. Ewing, G. Waddell. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2000

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Does Professor Quality Matter? Evidence from Random Assignment of Students to Professors (2010, unknown): “9 Barron, Ewing, and Waddell (2000) found a positive correlation between athletic participation and educational attainment, and Carrell, Fullerton, and West (2009) found a positive correlation between fitness scores and academic achievement.”
An Economic Analysis of Participation and Time Spent in Physical Activity (2011, background): “Research by Long and Caudill (1991), Barron et al. (2000), Eide and Ronan (2001), Lechner (2009), and Kosteas (2010) show a clear link between participation in physical activity and labor market outcomes and lifetime earnings.”
The Impact of Participation in Sports on Educational Attainment: New Evidence from Germany (2007, background): “…analyze the impact of high school and college athletic participation on educational and labor market success (see for example Long and Caudill, 1991; Maloney and McCormick, 1993; Anderson, 1998; Barron et al., 2000; Robst and Keil, 2000; Eide and Ronan, 2001; Libscomb, 2006; Stevenson, 2006).”
The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market (2017, methodology): “Participation in team sports in high school has been associated with leadership, prosocial orientation and teamwork ability, and has been shown to positively predict labor market outcomes in adulthood (Barron et al. 2000; Kuhn & Weinberger 2005; Weinberger 2014). The measures of participation in spo”
The Effect of Adolescent Experience on Labor Market Outcomes: The Case of Height (2004, unknown): “Substituting for w from (3), simplifying, and taking expectations yields”
How Learning a Musical Instrument Affects the Development of Skills (2013, unknown): “For example, the effect of music on cognitive skills is more than twice as large as the effect of sports, an activity which has been found an important input for skill development (Barron et al., 2000; Felfe et al., 2011; Pfeifer and Cornelissen, 2010; Stevenson, 2010).”
LABOR‐MARKET CONSEQUENCES OF POOR ATTITUDE AND LOW SELF‐ESTEEM IN YOUTH (2006, unknown): “5 Included as controls are gender, race, the highest education level of parents, birth order, performance in high school, cognitive ability (as measured by a combined score from comprehensive tests over mathematics, verbal skills, and reading), aptitude, and participation in high school athletic pro”