{"id":294749,"date":"2010-02-08T15:30:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T20:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/economics\/2010\/02\/08\/economists-link-athletics-to-success-in-school-job-markets\/"},"modified":"2010-02-08T15:30:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T20:30:54","slug":"economists-link-athletics-to-success-in-school-job-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/294749","title":{"rendered":"Economists Link Athletics to Success in School, Job Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"

For years, researchers have known that there\u0092s a link between children\u0092s participation in high school sports and success later in life. Problem is, they haven\u0092t understood exactly what that link is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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That\u0092s because children who participate in athletics may have other things going for them before they lace up their cleats. If they\u0092re already aggressive, goal-oriented extroverts with physical attributes, such as height, that improve their chances of doing well later, the effect of sports may be negligible.<\/p>\n

But Wharton<\/strong> economist Betsey Stevenson<\/strong> may have found a way <\/a>to untangle the lines of cause and effect. She examined what happened after Title IX — the 1972 law that banned gender discrimination at federally-funded schools.<\/p>\n

Title IX\u0092s most pronounced effect was on athletics. Girls\u0092 participation in high school sports went from 1 in 27 in 1972 to 1 in 4 in 1978. But it\u0092s effect wasn\u0092t uniform because states where boys\u0092 participation in athletics was high were forced to increase girls\u0092 participation the most. Ms. Stevenson was able to use the variation between states to tease out the effect of girls participation in sports from other factors. That allowed her to see how playing sports affected girls\u0092 success later in life.<\/p>\n

Her conclusion: A 10 percentage-point rise in girls\u0092 participation in high school sports leads to a 1 percentage point increase in female college attendance and a 1 to 2 percentage point increase in female labor-force participation.<\/p>\n

Maybe athletics should be added to reading, writing and arithmetic.<\/p>\n

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For years, researchers have known that there\u0092s a link between children\u0092s participation in high school sports and success later in life. Problem is, they haven\u0092t understood exactly what that link is. Sports participation is linked to economic success. (Getty Images) That\u0092s because children who participate in athletics may have other things going for them before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":850,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/850"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}