"The Chastain Effect: Using Title IX to Measure the Causal Effect of Participating in High School Sports on Adult Women's Social Lives," published in The Journal of Socio-Economics. Our results suggest that participating in sports leads women to reject patriarchal institutions such as church and marriage—perhaps as a consequence of the confidence and independence that sports participation engenders.

Title IX's Other Effects: Do Sports Make Women Less Religious? Saturday, March 29, 2014 @ 6:25pm