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The Impact of Participation in Sports on Educational Attainment : New Evidence from Germany
Cornelißen, Thomas - 2008
We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical … Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized ordered probit models to estimate the effect of participation in sport … into sport, we find strong evidence that the effect of sport on educational attainment is statistically significant and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773227
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Quantifying the Intangible Impact of the Olympics Using Subjective Well-Being Data
Dolan, Paul - 2019
Hosting the Olympic Games costs billions of taxpayer dollars. Following a quasi-experimental setting, this paper assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of 26,000 residents in London, Paris, and Berlin during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863807
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Seemingly Irrelevant Events Affect Economic Perceptions and Expectations : The FIFA World Cup 2006 as a Natural Experiment
Dohmen, Thomas J.; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2021
Prominent economic theories have emphasized the role of commonly held perceptions and expectations for determining macroeconomic outcomes. A key empirical question is how such collectively held beliefs are formed. We use the FIFA World Cup 2006 as a natural experiment. We provide direct evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317457
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Country-Specific Goal-Scoring in the 'Dying Seconds' of International Football Matches
van Ours, Jan C. - 2010
national teams: Belgium, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. We analyze qualifying matches for the European … Cup. We find that the national teams of Germany, England and the Netherlands are more likely than the three other national … teams to score in the last minute - including stoppage time. However, for Germans this comes at a cost. Germany is more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141748
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Is There Convergence of Russia's Regions? Exploring the Empirical Evidence : 1995–2010
Lehmann, Hartmut - 2013
This paper analyzes convergence in per capita gross regional product of Russia's regions during the period 1995-2010, when regional data are available. Using a panel regression framework we find no evidence for beta-convergence. Instead we find divergence, which is, however, attenuated over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076152
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Technology and Education : Computers, Software, and the Internet
Bulman, George - 2015
A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This chapter explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013568
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On the Role of Counterfactuals in Inferring Causal Effects of Treatments
Kluve, Jochen - 2021
Causal inference in the empirical sciences is based on counterfactuals. This paper presents the counterfactual account of causation in terms of Lewis's possible-world semantics, and reformulates the statistical potential outcome framework and its underlying assumptions using counterfactual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320814
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Sports and Child Development
Felfe, Christina - 2011
understood. This study fills part of this gap by analyzing the effect of sports club participation, one of the most popular extra …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118274
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Corporate Sports Activity and Work Morale : Evidence from a Japanese Automobile Maker
Sasaki, Masaru - 2013
This paper estimates the factors affecting the relationship between the wins and losses of corporate sports club teams … that corporate sports club teams' performance is an important factor influencing the work morale of older employees and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071286
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Heterogeneous Sports Participation and Labour Market Outcomes in England
Lechner, Michael - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073845