Sports and Child Development

Christina Felfe, Michael Lechner and Andreas Steinmayr

No 3629, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: Despite the relevance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills for professional success, their formation is not yet fully understood. This study fills part of this gap by analyzing the effect of sports club participation, one of the most popular extra-curricular activities, on children’s skill development. Our results indicate positive effects: both cognitive skills, measured by school performance, and overall non-cognitive skills improve by 0.13 standard deviations. The results are robust when using alternative datasets as well as alternative estimation and identification strategies. The effects can be partially explained by increased physical activities replacing passive leisure activities.

Keywords: skill formation; non-cognitive skills; physical activity; semi-parametric estimation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 J13 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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