IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ris/wfuewp/0108.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Narrow paths out of poverty and educational demand: Evidence from Dominican baseball

Author

Listed:

Abstract

Do narrow, or improbable, paths out of poverty, such as those in sports and entertainment, reduce the demand for schooling? We study the effect of professional baseball on educational attainment in the Dominican Republic, where all Major League Baseball (MLB) teams recruit teenage boys. We exploit plausibly exogenous variation in exposure to MLB’s sudden entry into the Dominican Republic based on preexisting local baseball cultures and leverage the fact that girls are not recruited for baseball. Using difference-in-differences and triple-differences designs, we find that baseball has no measurable effect on school attendance, in contrast to highly publicized accounts.

Suggested Citation

  • Marein, Brian & Palsson, Craig, 2024. "Narrow paths out of poverty and educational demand: Evidence from Dominican baseball," Working Papers 108, Wake Forest University, Economics Department.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:wfuewp:0108
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jpwz2rI12kPdfN-Ova9hEl2D_9iknQfc/view?usp=sharing
    File Function: Full text
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    human capital; labor markets; school enrollment; economic development;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • I25 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Economic Development
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ris:wfuewp:0108. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Don Shegog (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/dewfuus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.