Background: The Pennsylvania Department of Health (PADoH) launched the Active Schools Program (ASP) to encourage daily physical activity. ASP schools instituted a minimum of 30 minutes of daily physical education (PE). Control...
Preferences are the primitive notion in consumer theory. Preferences exist. By contrast, utility is an artificial construct used by economists to represent the underlying primitive notion of preferences. Utility functions are a...
For more information on the published version, visit Taylor and Francis's Website., Erfle, Stephen E., and Amelia J. Dietrich. College Student Mortality on U.S. Campuses Compared with Rates While Abroad. Journal of American...
Eagles, Munroe and Stephen Erfle. Community Cohesion and Voter Turnout in English Parliamentary Constituencies. British Journal of Political Science 19, no. 1 (1989): 115-25., For more information on the published version,...
One frequently advanced explanation for the mounting electoral difficulties of the British Labour Party in recent years has been the decline of cohesive traditional working-class communities. This explanation is assessed by...
This article presents a test of the argument that vulnerability to economic dislocation, primarily as it is represented by economic homogeneity in communities, exercises a constraint on levels of support for Quebec nationalism....
Erfle, Stephen, and Henry McMillan. Determinants of Network News Coverage of the Oil Industry During the Late 1970s. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 66, no. 1 (1989): 121-28., Price variations in testing oil and...
Published as: Erfle, Stephen E., and Abigail Gamble. Effects of Daily Physical Education on Physical Fitness and Weight Status in Middle School Adolescents. Journal of School Health 85, no. 1 (2015): 27-35. This author...
Since muscle is more dense than fat, athletes tend to have greater mass and BMI than similarly sized non-athletes. Comparing direct adiposity measures and BMI confirms that BMI is a biased proxy for adiposity for elite...
Managerial economics is one of the most applied areas of economics. Managerial economics teaches students how to use the tools of economics to, make decisions. As a result, this class is most effective if it simulates what...
Published as: Crowder, Todd A., and Stephen E. Erfle. Focal Behavior and Performance By Male U.S. Service Academy Cadets: A Preliminary Analysis. In Goal Setting and Personal Development: Teachers' Perspectives, Behavioral ...
Instructors teaching empirical techniques in managerial economics or economic and business statistics courses often face a dilemma. The typical student in these classes has less mathematical sophistication than those in...
This paper empirically examines whether major domestic oil companies held down product prices relative to their less visible counterparts during the 1979 oil crisis. We compare company prices on unregulated fuel oil with a...
The article discusses the use of a barter Edgeworth box in teaching students in economic classes about the connection between distributive efficiency and exchange.
Objectives: To determine whether an association exists between performance on various physical fitness activities (PFs) and body mass index (BMI) in a sample of U. S. middle school students. Are there sex based differences in...
This article examines the proclivity and performance attributes of focal students across time and activities using data from 9,345 students. Three systematic focal behavior partitions are examined: Across activities, across...
Erfle, Stephen. Persuasive Advertising and Consumer Welfare. Pennsylvania Economic Review 2, no. 2 (1992): 14-30. and Economists studying the welfare effects of advertising typically face a dilemma: advertising appears to...
Published as: Erfle, Stephen E. and Corey M. Gelbaugh. Physical Activity Performance of Focal Middle School Students. Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science 17 (2013): 150-66. This is an Accepted Manuscript...
For more information on the published version, visit Oxford Journals Website., Using the oil crisis of the late 1970s as a case study, we examine the intertwined influences of public opinion and media attention on the...
Histograms of push-up and curl-up performances of middle school students show that students stop at multiples of five more often than random processes suggest. The natural question arises: do students who stop at these focal...
For more information on the published version, visit Sage Journals Website., Erfle, Stephen, Henry McMillan, and Bernard Grofman. "Testing the Regulatory Threat Hypothesis: Media Coverage of the Energy Crisis and Petroleum...
The paper presents an ecological analysis evaluating two explanatory perspectives on third/minor party advances in recent English general elections. The impact of community cohesion on third/minor party mobilisation is complex...