The closer the sportier? Children's sport activity and their distance to sport facilities

Andreas Steinmayr, Christina Felfe and Michael Lechner

No 1104, Economics Working Paper Series from University of St. Gallen, School of Economics and Political Science

Abstract: We investigate whether the distance between the next sport facilities and children's homes matter for their sports activities inside and outside of sport clubs. Our analysis is based on a large and informative cross-section of individual data of children and their families, the so-called KIGGS data. We use a semiparametric econometric method to investigate this relationship empirically. Our results suggest that while the distance does not matter in larger towns and cities, it does matter in smaller towns and in particular on the countryside.

Keywords: Sport activities of children; KIGGS data; propensity score matching methods. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H42 I12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2011-02
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