More goals, fewer babies? : on national teams' performance and birth rates

Luca Fumarco, Francesco Principe

Does national team performance boost birth rates? We compiled a unique dataset combining country-level monthly birth rates for 50 European countries, along 56 years, with measures of national teams' performance in 27 international football events. We find that an increase in national teams' performance in international cups is associated with a drop in birth rates nine months after the event. We hypothesize that these results might be explained by individuals' time allocation choices.

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Year of publication:	2021
Authors:	Fumarco, Luca ; Principe, Francesco
Publisher:	Essen : Global Labor Organization (GLO)
Subject:	football \| sporting events \| time allocation \| birth rates \| fertility \| Fertilität \| Fertility \| Fußball \| Football \| Sportveranstaltung \| Sport event \| Familienplanung \| Family planning \| Zeitverwendung \| Time use \| Profisport \| Professional sports

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 14 Seiten) Illustrationen
Series:	GLO discussion paper. - Essen : [Global Labor Organization (GLO], ZDB-ID 2951901-9. - Vol. no. 860
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/234562 [Handle]
Classification:	I10 - Health. General ; J10 - Demographic Economics. General ; J11 - Demographic Trends and Forecasts ; J13 - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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