conditions for child development are worse. To identify the causal effect of children’s sport participation we exploit the panel …Previous research in developed countries suggests that sports participation can positively influence child development …. We use panel data of a cohort of 658 children in Peru to test this relationship in a less developed country where …

Previous research suggests that sports club participation of children in developed countries positively influences the … children’s well-being, health as well as human and social capital. We use panel data of a cohort of 1,579 children in Ethiopia … to having a causal interpretation. The findings suggest that the impact of programs, such as those provided in sport, can …

I investigated how people's childhood experiences of involvement in team sports helped them develop non … found that (1) sporting experiences cause people to have positive subjective views of reciprocity, (2) team sports … experience has a larger effect on people than individual sports experience, and (3) the above lead people to donate to disaster …

This paper presents evidence that generalized trust promotes health. Children of immigrants in a broad set of European … trust in explaining self-assessed health. The finding is robust to accounting for individual, parental, and extensive … ancestral country characteristics. Individuals with higher ancestral trust are also less likely to be hampered by health …