The Economics of Gender and Sport: A Quantitative Analysis of Women's Cricket (Routledge Studies in Gender and Economics)

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.Second there is acces