L’impact des dépenses publiques consacrées au sport sur les médailles olympiques

Paul Blais-Morisset, Vincent Boucher and Bernard Fortin ()

Revue économique, 2017, vol. 68, issue 4, 623-642

Abstract: Each year, a significant portion of government spending goes to sports at the professional or amateur level. A number of analysts argue that these investments greatly contribute to the success of a country at the Olympics. We present an econometric analysis aiming at estimating the causal effect of public investment in sports on the number of medals won by a country. We use panel counting models with fixed effects and instrumental variable. According to our selected specifications, the elasticity of the number of medals won by a country at the Summer Olympics with respect to its public investment in sport varies between 0.23 and 0.38. Classification JEL : C16, C23, C25, L83.

JEL-codes: C16 C23 C25 L83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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