TY  - JOUR
AU  - Kaestner,Robert
AU  - Xu,Xin
TI  - Effects of Title IX and Sports Participation on Girls' Physical Activity and Weight
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 12113
PY  - 2006
Y2  - March 2006
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12113
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12113.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Robert Kaestner
Institute of Government and Public Affairs
University of Illinois at Chicago
815 West Van Buren Street, Suite 525
Chicago, IL  60607
Tel: 312/996-8227
E-Mail: kaestner@uic.edu

Xin Xu
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 2006-03-27
AB  - In this study, we examined the association between girls%u2019 participation in high school sports and the physical activity, weight, body mass and body composition of adolescent females during the 1970s when girls%u2019 sports participation was dramatically increasing as a result of Title IX. We found that increases in girls%u2019 participation in high school sports, a proxy for expanded athletic opportunities for adolescent females, were associated with an increase in physical activity and an improvement in weight and body mass among girls. In contrast, adolescent boys experienced a decline in physical activity and an increase in weight and body mass during the period when girls%u2019 athletic opportunities were expanding. Taken together, these results strongly suggest that Title IX and the increase in athletic opportunities among adolescent females it engendered had a beneficial effect on the health of adolescent girls.
ER  -