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 …

By merging administrative data on public finances of all municipalities in Germany with individual data from the German … Socio-Economic Panel, we explore whether local public expenditures on sports facilities influences individual labor market … sports in general and in any of the publicly funded sports facilities in particular. Moreover, improved well-being and health …