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Between sports and happiness. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio- Economic Panel (GSOEP), we find a positive … correlation between sports participation and reported life satisfaction. This relationship is stronger at younger and older ages … causal directions. It turns out that the causal impact of engaging in sports on happiness is about four times higher than the …
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We show that hosting the Olympic Games in 2012 had a positive impact on the life satisfaction and happiness of Londoners during the Games, compared to residents of Paris and Berlin. Notwithstanding issues of causal inference, the magnitude of the effects is equivalent to moving from the bottom...
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bid decision is shaped by experience in hosting major sports events, a country and regional rotation, persistence and …
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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...
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