Consumers preferences for sustainable and healthier lifestyle are examined through stated preference discrete choice experiments. Specifically, we introduce several choice situations in which each respondent was asked to choose the best from three lifestyles presented, including the respondent's...

By merging administrative data on public finances of all municipalities in Germany with individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we explore whether local public expenditures on sports facilities influences individual labor market outcomes. Our identification strategy follows a...

Die vorliegende Studie der FOM Hochschule ist im Rahmen einer Kooperation mit der Stadt Essen und dem Essener Sportbund e. V. entstanden. Ziel des Sportmonitors ist es, dazu beizutragen, das Sportangebot in Essen aufrechtzuerhalten und auszuweiten. Dies erfolgt, indem Sportvereinen, Sponsoren,...

We show that limited attention and present bias contribute to low levels of exercise. First, in a large randomized experiment, we find that email reminders increase gym visits by 13 % and that they benefit nearly all types of individuals. Limited attention can explain these effects. Second,...

This study explores the forecasting of Major League Baseball game ticket sales and identifies important attendance predictors by means of random forests that are grown from classification and regression trees (CART) and conditional inference trees. Unlike previous studies that predict sport...

Possible effects of the introduction of the three-point rule in 1995 are tested by using data from amateur football leagues in Germany, concretely in Westphalia. There are as expected signifi-cantly less draws and more goals since the rule change. For even amateurs follow incentives.

This study analyses the effects of regular physical education at school on cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, motor skills, physical activity, and health. It is based on a very informative data set, the German Motorik-Modul, and identifies the effect by using variation in the required...

Despite the globalisation of European soccer, each professional league exhibits specificities. French Ligue 1 sometimes contends with the trading-off of financial performance against sporting performance of its teams in European soccer competitions, and its inner auditing body, the Direction...

Die Dissertation stellt die bundesdeutsche Sportförderpraxis in quantitativer wie qualitativer Hinsicht über einen Zeitraum von 25 Jahren dar, wobei - im Gegensatz zu bisherigen Veröffentlichungen - die kommunale Sportförderung im Mittelpunkt der Betrachtung steht. Einen zweiten Schwerpunkt...

"In a sporting world dominated by media and money, an understanding of sport branding is an essential skill for any sport manager. Success means being able to 'brand'-and therefore differentiate-a sport club, player, code or event in a highly competitive entertainment market. For anyone seeking...

We report the results of a randomized controlled trial testing whether incentivizing physical exercise improves the academic performance of college students. As expected, the intervention increases physical activity. The main result is that it generates a strong and significant improvement in...

Fragt man junge Erwachsene, ob sie in ihrer Jugend Sport getrieben haben, bejahen das unabhängig vom Bildungshintergrund der Eltern rund drei Viertel. Betrachtet man hingegen, wie viel Zeit Jugendliche mit sportlichen Aktivitäten verbringen, zeigen sich deutlich niedrigere Werte bei Befragten...

Injury rates in twelve U.S. men’s college sports and five U.S. boys' high school sports are examined in this paper. The sports are categorized as "contact" or "non-contact," and differences in injury rates between the two are examined. Injury rates in the contact sports are considerably higher...

Financial regulation in sports is usually discussed in the context of representing an instrument against "financial doping". Notwithstanding the merits of this discussion, this paper takes the opposite perspective and analyses how market-internal financial regulation itself may anticompetitively...

Practices and conducts in professional and even amateur sports can be subject to competition laws as soon as commercial activities are involved. From an economic perspective, this implies that both directly commercial activities like the sale of broadcasting/media rights and indirectly...

This paper investigates an alternative proxy for individual worker productivity in physical work settings: a direct measure of physical activity using an accelerometer. First, the paper compares worker labor outcomes, such as labor supply and daily productivity obtained from firm personnel data,...

Team Tennis competitions produce aggregate scores for teams, and thus team rankings, based on head-to-head matchups of individual team members. Similar scoring rules can be used to rank any two groups that must be compared on the basis of paired elements. We explore such rules in terms of their...

This article investigates the effects of physical activity on earnings in the Brazilian labor market, analyzing workers aged between 30 and 50 years. To that end, quantile regression was applied to analyze microdata from the 2008 National Household Sample Survey (PNAD). The results showed that...

Interdisciplinary antecedents, contexts and encouragements -- Theoretical and conceptual frameworks -- Capitalising on play : the corporatisation of sport/physical education spaces -- The sport-education-corporate nexus : global cases -- The sport-education-corporate nexus : regional cases --...

Ownership of sport : philosophical perspectives -- Ownership and the history of sport -- Corporate ownership of sport -- Who owns community sport? -- Politics, policy and the ownership of sport -- Ownership of sport for development and peace -- Who owns sport at sport mega events? -- Towards a...