Between sports and happiness. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio- Economic Panel (GSOEP), we find a positive … correlation between sports participation and reported life satisfaction. This relationship is stronger at younger and older ages … causal directions. It turns out that the causal impact of engaging in sports on happiness is about four times higher than the …

this gap by using a sample of professional athletes from 1975 - 2007. Our results show that there is little correlation …

today's changing environment. Analyzing data from 299 German athletes from different sports contexts, 159 of which are … for the genderinvariant role demands perspective as the female athletes who made it to the highest possible ranks do not … support for the gender-invariant role demands perspective in explaining the relative speed of male and female athletes …

doing sports business. Driven by the courts, the 2007 overhaul of the approach and methodology has increased the scope of … competition policy towards sports associations and clubs. Nowadays, virtually all activities of sports associations that govern … and organize a sports discipline with business elements are subject to antitrust rules. This includes genuine sporting …

sports to choose trainers or even to select the athletes expected to perform best, with people paying a premium for this … beauty and what it proxies. When it is a bad heuristic, it generates sub-optimal outcomes for sports organizations. We …