TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marcus,Jan
AU  - Siedler,Thomas
AU  - Ziebarth,Nicolas R.
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - The Long-Run Effects of Sports Club Vouchers for Primary School Children
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - May 2021; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in the state. The policy's objective was to encourage them to develop a long-term habit of exercising. In 2018, we carried out a large register-based survey among several cohorts in Saxony and two neighboring states. Our difference-indifferences estimations show that, even after a decade, awareness of the voucher program was significantly higher in the treatment group. We also find that youth received and redeemed the vouchers. However, we do not find significant short- or long-term effects on sports club membership, physical activity, overweightness, or motor skills
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w28819
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w28819
ER  -