Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this paper analyses the effects of spending part of adolescents' leisure time on playing music or doing sports, or both. We find that while playing music fosters educational outcomes compared to doing sports, particularly so for girls and children...

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this paper analyses the effects of spending part of adolescents' leisure time on playing music or doing sports, or both. We find that while playing music fosters educational outcomes compared to doing sports, particularly so for girls and children...

Die Rolle von kultureller Bildung in unserer Gesellschaft wird zunehmend kontrovers diskutiert. Verliert sie an Bedeutung, da Kultur den Sparzwängen der Politik zum Opfer fällt und Jugendliche durch G8 und Schulstress keine Zeit mehr für Musikschule haben? Bietet die Förderung kultureller...