Comparing the Socio-Economic Determinants of Men's and Women's International Soccer Performance

Victor Matheson (), Robert Hoffmann (), Lee Chew Ging () and Bala Ramasamy ()

No 508, Working Papers from College of the Holy Cross, Department of Economics

Abstract: We compare the determinants of women's and men's international soccer performance and find that partially different variables are important in the two contexts. While economic and demographic influences hold for both, the particular political and cultural factors differ. These differences highlight the greatly different economic, political and social significance of the sport depending whether it is played by men or women.

Keywords: women's football; soccer; FIFA World Ranking; amateur sports; gender inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L83 I00 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2005-06

Published in Applied Economics Letters, December 2006, Vol. 33:15, pp. 999-1001.

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