Sport participation and Child Development in Less Developed Countries

Tim Pawlowski, Ute Schüttoff (), Paul Downward () and Michael Lechner

No 1433, Economics Working Paper Series from University of St. Gallen, School of Economics and Political Science

Abstract: Previous research in developed countries suggests that sports participation can positively influence child development. We use panel data of a cohort of 658 children in Peru to test this relationship in a less developed country where conditions for child development are worse. To identify the causal effect of children’s sport participation we exploit the panel structure of our data together with using propensity score matching. Our findings suggest that participation in a sports group has positive impacts on two of the key factors that are identified in the literature as central to child development, i.e. subjective health and social capital.

Keywords: Social capital; Human capital; Well-being; Health; Group participation; Sports (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 D12 I21 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2014-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hrm, nep-soc and nep-spo
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