Quality Leisure Time and Youth Development

Aderonke Osikominu and Benjamin Fuchs

No 11330, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: This paper first develops a simple model to clarify the links between leisure time use and skill formation. It then explores empirically how youths allocate their time. We focus on sports as a popular activity and estimate its effect on behavioral and economic outcomes. We exploit data from the German Socio-Economic Panel that offers the unique advantage of both a large, representative sample and high quality behavioral measures. We employ a flexible strategy combining propensity score matching and regression to account for self selection. Our results suggest that structured leisure activities like sports contribute to the development of nonacademic skills.

Keywords: Human capital; Nonacademic skills; Leisure activities; Sports; Youth development; Treatment effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 J13 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-06
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