1st Edition

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

By Vani Kant Borooah Copyright 2023
174 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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. The Economics of Gender and Sport: A Quantitative Analysis of Women’s Cricket fills that gap. The work analyses the different... Read more

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About the author

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

Index

Biography

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