Higher wages for employees who are more active in sports have been demonstrated empirically several times before. They … (GSOEP), this study analyses whether active participation in sports fosters occupational promotion or the transfer of … significantly higher for individuals that participate more often in sports. Furthermore, personality traits that are more …

' 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 …

effects. We do, however, reaffirm their result of no significant wage effects. -- Olympic Games ; sports economics ; mega …

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 …

This paper assesses the role of distance in professional team sports, taking the example of football (soccer). We argue …

conflicts with the requirements of the Supreme Court. -- Gambling ; sports betting ; brand marketing policy ; sports economics …

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 …