Sports and Child Development

Michael Lechner, Christina Felfe and Andreas Steinmayr

No 8523, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: Despite the relevance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills for professional success, their formation is not yet fully understood. This study fills part of this gap by analyzing the role of sports club participation, one of the most popular extra-curricular activities, on children?s skill development. Our results indicate positive effects: school performance improves by 0.20 standard deviations and overall non-cognitive skills by 0.09 standard deviations. The results are robust when using alternative datasets as well as alternative estimation and identification strategies. The effects can be partially explained by increased physical activities replacing passive leisure activities.

Keywords: Non-cognitive skills; Physical activity; Semi-parametric estimation; Skill formation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J12 J13 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem, nep-lab and nep-spo
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