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ERIC #:	ED534689
Title:	The Impact of Physical Education on Obesity among Elementary School Children. NBER Working Paper No. 18341
Authors:	Cawley, John; Frisvold, David; Meyerhoefer, Chad
Descriptors:	Elementary School Students; Physical Education; Disease Control; Courses; Obesity; Academic Achievement; Achievement Tests; Grade 5; Probability; Body Weight; Body Composition; Scores
Source:	National Bureau of Economic Research
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Publisher:	National Bureau of Economic Research. 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-5398. Tel: 617-588-0343; Web site: http://www.nber.org
Publication Date:	2012-08-00
Pages:	0
Pub Types:	Reports - Evaluative
Abstract:	In response to the dramatic rise in childhood obesity, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other organizations have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However, little is known about the effect of PE on child weight. This paper measures that effect by instrumenting for child PE time with state policies, using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K) for 1998-2004. Results from IV models indicate that PE lowers BMI z-score and reduces the probability of obesity among 5th graders (in particular, boys), while the instrument is insufficiently powerful to reliably estimate effects for younger children. This represents some of the first evidence of a causal effect of PE on youth obesity, and thus offers at least some support to the assumptions behind the CDC recommendations. We find no evidence that increased PE time crowds out time in academic courses or has spillovers to achievement test scores.
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Identifiers:	Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey; Z Scores
Record Type:	Non-Journal
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Institutions:	National Bureau of Economic Research
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Languages:	English
Education Level:	Elementary Education; Grade 5
Direct Link:	http://papers.nber.org/papers/w18341

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