IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ebl/ecbull/eb-25-00243.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Type 1 diabetes and youth sports in Sweden: a field experiment on discrimination

Author

Listed:
  • Ali Ahmed

    (Linköping University)

  • Mats Hammarstedt

    (Linnaeus University)

Abstract

This study evaluated discrimination against children with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) in Swedish sports clubs through a field experiment. Two fictitious fathers sent emails to 193 top-division clubs in football, floorball, ice hockey, and handball, one disclosing his son's T1DM condition. The investigation focused on disparities in clubs' responses and the information provided. Results indicated no statistically significant difference in positive or comprehensive responses between emails mentioning T1DM and those that did not, though the observed differences in response rates suggest that limited statistical power may have obscured small but meaningful disparities. This highlights the need for cautious interpretation and further study.

Suggested Citation

  • Ali Ahmed & Mats Hammarstedt, 2025. "Type 1 diabetes and youth sports in Sweden: a field experiment on discrimination," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 45(2), pages 1083-1087.
    • Handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-25-00243
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.accessecon.com/Pubs/EB/2025/Volume45/EB-25-V45-I2-P94.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    JEL classification:

    • J7 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination
    • J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-25-00243. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: John P. Conley (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.