The impact of government functional spending on physical inactivity inequalities: evidence from an exploratory study in Spain

Diplôme Master The impact of government functional spending on physical inactivity inequalities: evidence from an exploratory study in Spain eng 2026-01-27 author Piacentini Hansen Theis Gino Christian 873462 director Morgan Marc 0000-0002-1761-4346 967858 Service enseignement, recherche, administratif et technique (SdS) (SCSPS) Marc MORGAN 111 This thesis explores the relationship between functional government spending and physical inactivity inequalities in Spain. We employ the data of Luis Cereijo, Ph.D. regarding the relative index of physical inactivity inequalities based on educational attainment or social class a novelty in this line of research. Data from the Spanish government and National Institute of Statistics was also leveraged. We begin by examining existing literature on the socioeconomic gradient of inactivity inequalities, as well as studies on the potential public health costs of sedentarism, and on the impact of government spending on physical activity. We then proceed to an empirical analysis of the relationship between different measures of functional government spending on the relative index of physical inactivity inequality, via two different empirical methods. The first is a multilevel regression analysis of the impact of functional spending per capita and the second is a 2 step pooled OLS regression analysis on the impact of spending composition. Our results indicate that functional government spending has an overall limited impact on physical inactivity inequalities, and that the two different socioeconomic markers used to calculate RII lead to differing levels of regional heterogeneity. This suggests that physical inactivity inequalities as measured by educational attainment and social class are influenced by different structural and regional factors outside of our models, highlighting the need for additional investigation. The novelty that our study provides by using the relative index of physical inactivity inequality as well as analysing its relationship with functional government spending makes this exploratory paper an important first step in expanding this line of research. Inactivity inequalities Spain Data of Luis Cereijo, Ph.D Physical inactivity inequalities Educational attainment Social class a novelty Spanish government National Institute of Statistics Dewey 330 Dewey 330.9 Master in Political Economy of Capitalim 123 Département d'histoire, économie et société T5 193 Institut d'histoire économique Paul Bairoch TE false 6606d86f-5e88-4139-b4ff-399054b5c412 Master thesis Private Theis_Hansen_MasterThesis_Publicati.pdf 3873499 application/pdf a1005112768aaa3d945ff88ccc57f10fe5854a85829174dc3c454858a777cf6c closedAccess Faculté des sciences de la société / Département d'histoire, économie et société Faculté des sciences de la société / Institut d'histoire économique Paul Bairoch

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