to doing sports, particularly so for girls and children from more highly educated families, doing sports improves … an extensive robustness analysis including instrumental variable estimation and a formal sensitivity analysis of the …

to doing sports, particularly so for girls and children from more highly educated families, doing sports improves … an extensive robustness analysis including instrumental variable estimation and a formal sensitivity analysis of the …

-curricular activities, on children's skill development. Our results indicate positive effects: both cognitive skills, measured by school … datasets as well as alternative estimation and identification strategies. The effects can be partially explained by increased …-parametric estimation …

-curricular activities, on children's skill development. Our results indicate positive effects: school performance improves by 0.20 standard … as well as alternative estimation and identification strategies. The effects can be partially explained by increased …

We investigate whether the distance between the next sport facilities and children's homes matter for their sports … of children and their families, the so-called KIGGS data. We use a semiparametric econometric method to investigate this … smaller towns and in particular on the countryside. Keywords: Sport activities of children, KIGGS data, propensity score …