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The trickle-down effect: how elite sporting success affects amateur participation in German football

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  • P. Wicker

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The trickle-down effect assumes that sporting success at the elite sport level descends down to the amateur sport level in the sense that people are inspired by sporting success to participate themselves. Previous research failed to find convincing evidence for this relationship, mostly because the data used and the methods applied (e.g. cross-sectional data, primary data, correlations) were not adequate. This study addresses these shortcomings and examines the effect of national sporting success on amateur sport participation in German football using longitudinal data from 1950 to 2014. Since an individual's decision to participate in sport also depends on other factors, the regression models also control for working hours, real wages etc. The results show that only World Cup title wins of the men's national team have a positive and statistically significant impact on the number of and percentage changes in individual club memberships, clubs and teams. The coefficients of European Championship titles and title wins of the women's national team turn out to be mostly insignificant. Future research should examine the reasons as to why only title wins by the men's team have a measurable inspirational effect on amateur sport participation in football.

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  • B. Frick & P. Wicker, 2016. "The trickle-down effect: how elite sporting success affects amateur participation in German football," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(4), pages 259-263, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:23:y:2016:i:4:p:259-263
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2015.1068916
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