The Economics of Gender and Sport: A Quantitative Analysis of Women's Cricket

ISBN-13: 9781032109589 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 184 str.

Vani Kant Borooah

Opis

While women’s cricket, and women’s sport in general, has gained enormously in popularity in terms of both spectators and TV audiences, comparatively little is known about it and its participants, and there are few, if any, quantitative assessments of the game. This book fills that gap.

Spis treści

Preface   Chapter 1 Prologue   Chapter 2 Chance and Cricketing Outcomes   Chapter 3 Access Inequality   Chapter 4 Competitive Balance   Chapter 5 Adjudication in Cricket   Chapter 6 Remuneration in Cricket   Chapter 7 Assessing Player Performances   Chapter 8 Epilogue

O autorze

Vani Kant Borooah is Emeritus Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Ulster, UK.