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Author: Stevenson, Betsey
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1. Stevenson, Betsey
Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports
NBER Working Paper No. 15728, National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2010.
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Keyword(s): Athletics (see SPORTS); Extracurricular Activities/Sports; Gender Attitudes/Roles; High School; Labor Force Participation; Labor Market Outcomes; Occupations; Racial Differences; Rural/Urban Differences; Sports (also see ATHLETICS); State-Level Data/Policy

Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates—to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates—in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic participation. This paper examines the causal implications of this expansion in female sports participation by using variation in the level of boys' athletic participation across states before Title IX to instrument for the change in girls' athletic participation. Analysis of differences in outcomes across states in changes between pre- and post-cohorts reveals that a 10-percentage point rise in state-level female sports participation generates a 1 percentage point increase in female college attendance and a 1 to 2 percentage point rise in female labor force participation. Furthermore, greater opportunities to play sports leads to greater female participation in previously male-dominated occupations, particularly in high-skill occupations.
Bibliography Citation
Stevenson, Betsey. "Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports." NBER Working Paper No. 15728, National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2010..
2. Stevenson, Betsey
Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports
Review of Economics and Statistics 92,2 (May 2010): 284-301.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27867537
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: MIT Press
Keyword(s): Athletics (see SPORTS); College Enrollment; Extracurricular Activities/Sports; Gender Attitudes/Roles; Gender Differences; High School; Labor Market Outcomes; Sports (also see ATHLETICS); State-Level Data/Policy

Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates in order to comply with Title IX. This paper examines the causal implications of this expansion by using variation in the level of boys' athletic participation across states before Title IX to instrument for change in girls' athletic participation. Analysis of differences in outcomes across states in changes between pre- and postcohorts reveals that a 10 percentage point rise in state-level female sports participation generates a 1 percentage point increase in female college attendance and a 1 to 2 percentage point rise in female labor force participation.
Bibliography Citation
Stevenson, Betsey. "Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports." Review of Economics and Statistics 92,2 (May 2010): 284-301.