State High School Athletic Association’s Limited Participation Rules: Transfer

Taylor Rules in a Limited Participation Model

We use the limited participation model of money as a laboratory for studying the operating characteristics of Taylor rules for setting the rate of interest. Rules are evaluated according to their ability to protect the economy from bad outcomes such as the burst of in°ation observed in the 1970s. Based on our analysis, we argue for a rule which: (i) raises the nominal interest rate more than on...

High School Sports Participation

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

We introduce a simple allocation-of-tim e 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 participatio n are identiŽ ed in the context of this model. A variety of tests of the model are provided using two data sets: the National Longitudinal Survey of ...

Stress and Burnout in Female High School Athletic Directors

In the current study we examined the relationships between stress pre­ dictors, stress, and burnout in female high school athletic directors (N = 52). Significant negative correlations between stress and hardiness and between stress and number of social support providers were found. Significant positive correlations between stress and time concerns, per­ sonnel concerns, and program success (e....

Physical activity and sports team participation: associations with academic outcomes in middle school and high school students.

BACKGROUND Previous studies have found that higher physical activity levels are associated with greater academic achievement among students. However, it remains unclear whether associations are due to the physical activity itself or sports team participation, which may involve requirements for maintaining certain grades, for example. The purpose of this study is to examine the associations betw...