Using Shanghai Municipal Data to Examine the Impact of Education on the Exercise Behavior of Students
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211223.055How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Over-education; Student’s exercise behavior; Sports participation
- Abstract
The competitive education environment in China encourages students to take additional private tutoring as they advance through their education system. We examine whether their incentive to take extra tutoring classes will undermine their propensity to exercise, potentially affecting their long-term health. Using a survey on sports behavior and consumption for Shanghai residence ages 6 to 17, we found that on average, students that advance through a year in education spend 0.169 fewer days of weekly exercise and are 1.38 percent less likely to spend on training. In other words, when compared to an average sixth-grade student, a twelfth-grade student spends a day less in exercise per week and is 8.3 percent less likely to spend less on sports training. It demonstrated that the additional private lessons reduce leisure time, causing students to cut down on their frequency to exercise. We find that on average, students make up for the lack of exercise and sports training by watching more sports events and spending more on sports expenditure.
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- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Cheah Hon Foong AU - Catur Supriyanto PY - 2021 DA - 2021/12/24 TI - Using Shanghai Municipal Data to Examine the Impact of Education on the Exercise Behavior of Students BT - Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Arts and Humanities 2021 (IJCAH 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 312 EP - 318 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211223.055 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211223.055 ID - Foong2021 ER -