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Quantifying the intangible impact of the olympics using subjective well-being data
Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 2019
Hosting the Olympic Games costs billions of taxpayer dollars. Following a quasi- experimental setting, this paper assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of 26,000 residents in London, Paris, and Berlin during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012063244
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Mozart or Pelé? : the effects of teenagers' participation in music and sports
Cabane, Charlotte; Hille, Adrian; Lechner, Michael - 2015
' leisure time on playing music or doing sports, or both. We find that while playing music fosters educational outcomes compared … to doing sports, particularly so for girls and children from more highly educated families, doing sports improves …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510696
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Sports heroes and mass sports participation : the (double) paradox of the "German tennis boom"
Feddersen, Arne; Jacobsen, Sven; Maennig, Wolfgang - 2009
participation in that sport. This study is the first to analyse the impact of sports heroes on the membership figures of the … corresponding sports association by means of an econometric analysis. We do so by evaluating the so-called "Boris Becker effect" by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003948737
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Distance matters! : evidence from professional team sports
Oberhofer, Harald; Philippovich, Tassilo; Winner, Hannes - 2008
This paper assesses the role of distance in professional team sports, taking the example of football (soccer). We argue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733228
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Long-run labour market effects of individual sports activities
Lechner, Michael - 2008 - This version: 17 June 2008
This microeconometric study analyzes the effects of individual leisure sports participation on long-term labour market … their own level of sports activities are tackled by combining informative data and flexible semiparametric estimation … methods with a specific way to use the panel dimension of the data. The paper shows that sports activities have sizeable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632606
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Long-Run Labour Market Effects of Individual Sports Activities
Lechner, Michael - 2008
This microeconometric study analyzes the effects of individual leisure sports participation on long-term labour market … their own level of sports activities are tackled by combining informative data and flexible semiparametric estimation … methods with a specific way to use the panel dimension of the data. The paper shows that sports activities have sizeable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014217213
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Long-Run Labour Market Effects of Individual Sports Activities
Lechner, Michael - 2021
This microeconometric study analyzes the effects of individual leisure sports participation on long-term labour market … their own level of sports activities are tackled by combining informative data and flexible semiparametric estimation … methods with a specific way to use the panel dimension of the data. The paper shows that sports activities have sizeable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325104
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Sports Heroes and Mass Sports Participation – the (Double) Paradox of the 'German Tennis Boom'
Feddersen, Arne - 2011
participation in that sport. This study is the first to analyze the impact of sports heroes on the membership figures of the … corresponding sports association by means of an econometric analysis. We do so by evaluating the so-called 'Boris Becker effect' by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133945
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News shocks in the data : olympic oames and their macroeconomic effects ; reply
Langer, Viktoria C. E.; Maennig, Wolfgang; Richter, Felix - 2015 - Version: June 2015
Recent analyses relate increases in the growth rate of countries to anticipation effects caused by bidding for the Olympic Games, so called news shocks. We argue that these findings should be interpreted cautiously. First, these analyses may suffer from an omitted variable bias because they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011373571
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Investment in stadia and regional economic development : evidence from FIFA World Cup 2006
Feddersen, Arne (contributor);  … - 2008
Using the case of the new stadiums for the FIFA World Cup 2006 in Germany, this paper is the first multivariate work that examines the potential income and employment effects of new stadiums outside of the USA. This study is also the first work on this topic that conducts tests on the basis of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003800941