{"id":15741,"date":"2017-10-04T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15741"},"modified":"2017-10-02T17:37:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T21:37:47","slug":"the-economics-of-american-football-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/the-economics-of-american-football-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of American Football Injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/100217_0558_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The injuries borne by players of American football have attracted the scrutiny of economists wrote Gina Kolata:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Researchers found that without contact football there would be 50,000 fewer injuries in college alone. In high school the number would be 600,000.<\/li>\n<li>High school athletes have more injuries because there are a greater number of them, they&#8217;re less skilled, and they have less experienced coaching staff supporting them.<\/li>\n<li>College injuries cost society at least $1.5 billion a year, while high school ones cost $19.2 billion.<\/li>\n<li>This includes the direct costs of the injury \u2013 indirect ones like living with long-term pain because of ligament damage, or the heightened risk of arthritis aren&#8217;t included in the estimate.<\/li>\n<li>Insurers are starting to take note and have begun driving costs up so high that many schools are considering abandoning the sport entirely.<\/li>\n<li>There is an increasing number of parents who wouldn&#8217;t want their child participating in a sport where television producers on the professional level use parabolic mikes to capture the sound of heads cracking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/29\/health\/sports-injuries-football-yale.html?mcubz=1\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The injuries borne by players of American football have attracted the scrutiny of economists wrote Gina Kolata: Researchers found that without contact football there would be 50,000 fewer injuries in college alone. In high school the number would be 600,000. High school athletes have more injuries because there are a greater number of them, they&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/100217_0558_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15760,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15741\/revisions\/15760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}