Journal article
Do High School Athletes Earn More Pay? Youth Sport Participation and Earnings as an Adult
Abstract
This paper reports on tests of relationships between participation in organized sport as a youth and earned income in adulthood. The data are drawn from a sample survey of adult Canadians. The results, both before and after appropriate controls, show that those who participated in organized sport as a youth tended to have higher annual earned incomes as adults than those who did not participate in this way. The relationships are stronger and …
Authors
Curtis J; McTeer W; White P
Journal
Sociology of Sport Journal, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 60–76
Publisher
Human Kinetics
Publication Date
March 1, 2003
DOI
10.1123/ssj.20.1.60
ISSN
0741-1235