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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022

Are Sports Champions Also Anti-Epidemic Heroes? Quantitative Research on the Influence of Sports Champions' Demonstration Effect on the COVID-19 Epidemic in China.

Junpei Huang, Shanlang Lin, Xiaoli Hu, Ruofei Lin

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Junpei HuangSchool of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.ORCID 0000-0002-8357-0273
Shanlang LinSchool of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.
Xiaoli HuInternational College of Football, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.
Ruofei LinSchool of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.
Tongji University · CN

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 71773083National Social Science Foundation of China 13BJY091
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

What kind of role do sports champions play in the COVID-19 epidemic? Do they contribute to the mitigation of the epidemic by some pathway? In this paper, we empirically explore the influence and mechanism of the demonstration effect of sports champions upon the COVID-19 epidemic using COVID-19-related dataset of prefecture-level cities in China from 1 January 2020 to 17 March 2020. The two-way fixed effect model of econometrics is applied to estimate the result, the instrumental variable approach is adopted to address potential endogeneity issues, and socio-economic factors including public health measures, residents' self-protection awareness, effective distance from Wuhan are also taken into consideration. The results show that the demonstration effect of champions in major sporting events increases the participation in physical exercise, which in turn reduces the possibility of being infected with the epidemic. An increase of one gold medal results in a 0.93% increase in the sports population, then leads to a 3.58% decrease in the cumulative case growth rate (

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COVID-19EpidemicsChinaCitiesHumansSARS-CoV-2COVID-19demonstration effectmediating effectphysical exercisesports champion

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PMID35206626
PMCPMC8872107
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