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Childhood Sporting Activities and Adult Labour-Market Outcomes

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  • Charlotte Cabane

    () (CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - CNRS : UMR8174 - Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne)

  • Andrew E. Clark

    (EEP-PSE - Ecole d'Économie de Paris - Paris School of Economics - Ecole d'Économie de Paris)

Abstract

It is well known that non-cognitive skills are an important determinant of success in life. However, their returns are not simple to measure and, as a result, relatively few studies have dealt with this empirical question. We consider sports participation while at school as one way of improving or signalling the individual's non-cognitive skills endowment. We use four waves of Add Health data to study how sports participation by schoolchildren translates into labour-market success. We specifically test the hypotheses that participation in different types of sports at school leads to, ceteris paribus, very different types of jobs and labour-market insertion in general when adult. We take seriously the issue of endogeneity of sporting activities in order to tease out a causal relationship between childhood sporting activity and adult labour market success. As such, we contribute to the literature on the returns to non-cognitive skills.

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  1. Which childhood sport is more promising for labor market outcomes
    by Economic Logician in Economic Logic on 2011-12-07 15:42:00
  2. The dark side of sport
    by chris dillow in Stumbling and Mumbling on 2011-12-15 15:06:34
  3. Why teach sport?
    by chris dillow in Stumbling and Mumbling on 2012-08-13 13:06:39

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