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题名/责任者:

The economics of gender and sport : a quantitative analysis of women's cricket / Vani Kant Borooah.

出版发行项:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.

ISBN:

9781032109589

ISBN:

1032109580

ISBN:

9781032109602

ISBN:

1032109602

载体形态项:

xii, 156 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

丛编说明:

Routledge Studies in Gender and Economics

个人责任者:

Borooah, Vani K., author.

论题主题:

Cricket for women.

论题主题:

Sports for women-Economic aspects.

论题主题:

Discrimination in sports.

中图法分类号:

G80-051

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

摘要附注:

"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 forms of cricket - Test cricket, One-day, T20 - and is based on the latest sets of available data. It seeks to answer questions such as how well female cricketers play, how well they are paid, who the superstars are, and how competitive women's cricket is. It also examines more general issues which affect men's cricket too, with the over-arching theme of this book being inequality. First, the chapters discuss inequality in the distribution of luck. The book discusses the importance of luck in cricket and suggests a way of distinguishing between luck and ability in determining match outcomes. Then there is access inequality, which means that players from certain groups have an advantage in terms of being chosen to play in representative teams. Third, there is inequality in tournament outcomes, and this carries implications for the degree of competitive balance in contests between teams. Fourth is the issue of inequality in the quality of umpiring in men's and women's cricket. Fifth, there is inequality between men and women in their respective remunerations as cricketeers. Lastly, there is inequality in performance between players: the book explains how batting and bowling averages can be adjusted to better reflect player performance. The volume will find an audience among advanced students and researchers in sports economics, sports-related and gender studies. More generally, it will appeal to lovers of cricket who wish to read about the game in terms which are more than simply anecdotal. Vani Kant Borooah is Emeritus Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Ulster, UK"--

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