Childhood sporting activities and adult labour-market outcomes

Charlotte Cabane and Andrew Clark

Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne

Abstract: It is well known that non-cognitive skills are an important determinant of success in life. However, their returns are not simple to measure and, as a result, relatively few studies have dealt with this empirical question. We consider sports participation while at school as one way of improving or signalling the individual's non-cognitive skills endowment. We use four waves of Add Health data to study how sports participation by schoolchildren translates into labour-market success. We specifically test the hypotheses that participation in different types of sports at school leads to, ceteris paribus, very different types of jobs and labour-market insertion in general when adult. We take seriously the issue of endogeneity of sporting activities in order to tease out a causal relationship between childhood sporting activity and adult labour market success. As such, we contribute to the literature on the returns to non-cognitive skills

Keywords: Job quality; sport; non-cognitive skills (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I2 J24 J28 L83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2011-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-lab and nep-spo
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Journal Article: Childhood Sporting Activities andAdult Labour-Market Outcome (2015)
Working Paper: Childhood Sporting Activities and Adult Labour-Market Outcomes (2013)
Working Paper: Childhood sporting activities and adult labour-market outcomes (2013)
Working Paper: Childhood Sporting Activities and Adult Labour-Market Outcomes (2013)
Working Paper: Childhood Sporting Activities and Adult Labour-Market Outcomes (2013)
Working Paper: Childhood Sporting Activities and Adult Labour-Market Outcomes (2013)
Working Paper: Childhood Sporting Activities and Adult Labour-Market Outcomes (2011)
Working Paper: Childhood Sporting Activities and Adult Labour-Market Outcomes (2011)
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