Arbeitspapier

More Goals, Fewer Babies? On National Teams' Performance and Birth Rates

Does national team performance boost birth rates? We compiled a unique dataset combining country-level monthly birth rates for 50 European countries, along 56 years, with measures of national teams' performance in 27 international football events. We find that an increase in national teams' performance in international cups is associated with a drop in birth rates nine months after the event. We hypothesize that these results might be explained by individuals' time allocation choices.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 14448

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Health: General
Demographic Economics: General
Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Thema
football
sporting events
time allocation
birth rates
fertility

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Fumarco, Luca
Principe, Francesco
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2021

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Fumarco, Luca
  • Principe, Francesco
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2021

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