This paper analyses the income effect of the participation in elite sports using a unique dataset on former German top … elite sports closes the gender-wage gap. … athletes receive higher incomes than similar non-athletes. Moreover, team sports athletes as well as male athletes realise …

systematically across types of sports facilities. Publicly provided open sports fields and sport halls tend to be concentrated in …This study analyses the sports infrastructure of Hamburg, Germany, from the residents’ perspective. Empirical evidence … is provided for the Sports Place Theory developed by BALE (2003) using a micro-level dataset of 1,319 sports facilities …

sources of data going back several decades to investigate how gender stereotypes and parental time investments shape sport … Association, which provides information for every state on the total number of high school participants by gender in each sport … making sport choices in high school. We also identify parental time investments as being an important cultural …