Exploring the Economic Choice to Participate in Sport: Results from the 2002 General Household Survey

Paul Downward

International Review of Applied Economics, 2007, vol. 21, issue 5, 633-653

Abstract: This article explores the decision to participate in sports activities in the United Kingdom using a qualitative choice framework. The consistency of the results with neoclassical theories of leisure, and heterodox economic theory, which embraces a psychological view of decision making and structure of demand, is assessed. Finding more support for the latter perspective, the implications of this for sports policy are discussed.

Keywords: Sports; participation; choice behaviour (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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