Can Sport Really Help to Meet the Millennium Development Goals? Evidence From Children in Peru

Tim Pawlowski, Ute Schüttoff, Paul Downward and Michael Lechner

Journal of Sports Economics, 2018, vol. 19, issue 4, 498-521

Abstract: In contrast to the popular policy claim that sport might serve as vehicle to meet the Millennium Development Goals, empirical evidence based on large-scale survey data is largely missing. We use panel data based on a cohort of children and employ propensity score matching to identify the effects of sports participation on child development in Peru. Our findings suggest that participation in a sports group has positive impacts on subjective health and a measure of social capital. However, and in contrast to developed countries, we find no statistically significant effects on well-being and human capital formation.

Keywords: social capital; human capital; well-being; health; sports participation; development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1177/1527002516661601

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