types of events. This paper examines the effect of staging the largest and most important sporting event in the world, the …

inequalities in chess, a mind-dominated sport, but not in tennis, a wealth-dominated sport. Negative economic shocks, such as the …

on police officers. These findings are inconsistent with frustration-aggression theories that can explain sports …

methods, we use the FIFA World Cup 2006 as a natural experiment. The significant ex-post increase in valuation is shown to be … World Cup finals were the first mega-event hosted by reunified Germany. We use this landmark event in German contemporary …

understood. This study fills part of this gap by analyzing the effect of sports club participation, one of the most popular extra …

Based on a unique composite dataset measuring heterogeneous sports participation, labour market outcomes and local … facilities provision, this paper examines for the first time the association between different types of sports participation on … employment and earnings in England. Clear associations between labour market outcomes and sports participation are established …

Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on …