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Does Sports Make People Happier, or Do Happy People More Sports?

Published:2021-01-07 Issue:4 Volume:22 Page:432-458
ISSN:1527-0025
Container-title:Journal of Sports Economics
language:en
Short-container-title:Journal of Sports Economics

Author:

Frey Bruno S.¹²^ORCID,Gullo Anthony²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. University of Basel, Switzerland

2. CREMA, Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts, Zürich, Switzerland

Abstract

We contribute to the happiness literature by analyzing the causal relationship between sports and happiness. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we find a positive correlation between sports participation and reported life satisfaction. This relationship is stronger at younger and older ages than in middle age, and for people in bad health compared to those in average health. We further provide evidence for both causal directions. It turns out that the causal impact of engaging in sports on happiness is about four times higher than the effect of happiness on engaging in sports.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1527002520985667

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