Childhood Sporting Experience and Charitable Donations to Disaster Victims

Abstract

I investigated how people’s childhood experiences of involvement in team sports helped them develop non-cognitive skills, which later prompted them to make charitable donations to disaster victims. I independently collected individual-level data from approximately 7000 observations in 2016. The instrumental variable (IV) method was used for the estimations. In the specification of the IV model, sporting experience and informal education in childhood were used as exogenous IV. I found that (1) sporting experiences cause people to have positive subjective views of reciprocity, (2) team sports experience has a larger effect on people than individual sports experience, and (3) the above lead people to donate to disaster victims of enormous disasters such as the Great East Japan Earthquake.

The Effect of Primary School Education on Preventive Behaviours during COVID-19 in Japan

“…INTAGE was chosen for their good reputation due to their abundant experience with academic research. In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic (13)(14)(15)(16) March 2020), the first wave of queries was conducted to gather 4359 observations. INTAGE recruited participants for the survey from among pre-registered individuals, with a participation rate of 54.7%.…”

“…What adult people remember from their childhood is seemingly unrelated to their current behaviours. Various existing works using retrospective surveys found that informal education in primary school and childhood circumstances formed adult preferences and worldviews [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. Lee et al explored the role of hygiene school education in childhood on regular handwashing behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic [1].…”