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Mozart or Pelé? The effects of adolescents' participation in music and sports

2016-08 , Cabane, Charlotte , Hille, Adrian , Lechner, Michael

We analyse the effects of playing music, or doing sports on education and health outcomes of adolescents. After identifying adolescents who play music, do sports, or both, in the German Socio-Economic Panel, we use matching procedures to estimate causal effects. We find that playing music instead of doing sports fosters educational outcomes by about 0.1 standard deviations. Effects are stronger for girls, and for children from more highly educated families. Doing sports improves perceived health more strongly than playing music. Engaging in both activities, music and sports, improves educational outcomes by about 0.2 standard deviations and reduces smoking by about 10 percentage points compared to engaging in just one activity. Adolescents who engage in music spend less time watching TV or playing computer games, but more reading books. The robustness of the results is examined with respect to the identifying assumptions, including non-affected outcomes, a formal sensitivity analysis, and instrumental variable estimation. These checks do not reveal any serious problems.

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Nachfrage II - Effekte durch das individuelle Sporttreiben

2016 , Lechner, Michael , Knaus, Michael , Cabane, Charlotte , Deutscher, Christian , Hovemann, Gregor , Pawlowski, Tim , Thieme, Lutz

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Childhood Sporting Activities and Adult Labour-Market Outcomes

2013-04-05 , Cabane, Charlotte

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Unemployment Duration and Sport Participation

2013 , Cabane, Charlotte

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Physical activity of adults: a survey of correlates, determinants, and effects

2015 , Cabane, Charlotte , Lechner, Michael

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Childhood Sporting Activities and Adult Labour-Market Outcomes

2013-12-01 , Clark, Andrew E. , Cabane, Charlotte

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Music or Sports? An Empirical analysis of their differential effects on child development

2013-09-25 , Cabane, Charlotte

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Effekte durch das individuelle Sporttreiben

2016 , Lechner, Michael , Cabane, Charlotte , Knaus, Michael

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Do sporty people have access to higher job quality?

2010-06-01 , Cabane, Charlotte

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Unemployment Duration and Sports Participation

2013-03-20 , Cabane, Charlotte