Do local expenditures on sports facilities affect sports participation?
利用德国市级体育设施支出数据与个人层面数据，分析地方公共支出对体育参与的影响，发现体育设施支出对个人体育参与无显著效应，且该结论在不同年龄组和城市规模中均稳健。
Abstract This paper contributes to the literature evaluating the performance of local governments by analyzing the effect of local public expenditures on sports facilities on sports participation in Germany. To this end, we use a new data base containing public expenditures at the municipality level and link this information with individual level data. We form locally weighted averages of expenditures based on geographic distances and analyze how effects of sports facility expenditures change with different expenditures levels (“dose‐response relationship”). We find no effect of sports facility expenditures on individual sports participation. These findings are robust across age groups and municipality sizes.