The Impact of Participation in Sports on Educational Attainment: New Evidence from Germany
By T. Cornelissen, Christian Pfeifer. Social Science Research Network, 2007
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We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical framework is based on models of allocation of time and educational productivity. Using the rich information from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized ordered probit models to estimate the effect of participation in sport activities on secondary school degrees and professional degrees. Even after controlling for important variables and selection into sport, we find strong evidence that the effect of sport on educational attainment is statistically significant and positive.
Subfields: Education, Gender Studies, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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- How Learning a Musical Instrument Affects the Development of Skills (2013, background): “For example, the effect of music on cognitive skills is more than twice as large as the effect of sports, an activity which has been found an important input for skill development (Barron et al., 2000; Felfe et al., 2011; Pfeifer and Cornelissen, 2010; Stevenson, 2010).”