More goals, fewer babies?: On national team performance and birth rates

Luca Fumarco; Francesco Principe

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2021.110086

More goals, fewer babies? On national team performance and birth rates

Luca Fumarco, Francesco Principe^*

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Abstract

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

Original language	English
Article number	110086
Number of pages	5
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	208
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2021.110086
Publication status	Published - Nov 2021

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