Narrow Paths Out of Poverty and Educational Demand
Evidence from Dominican Baseball
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7756124 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brian Marein (0000-0003-4001-7045), Craig Palsson (0000-0002-0330-9973) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 747-775 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economic Development and Cultural Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0079 • E-ISSN: 1539-2988 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/737224 |
| OpenAlex | W4411371464 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 28 |
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
Demographic economics · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Political science · Poverty · School Choice and Performance · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports Analytics and Performance
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| Highly cited | No |