Nationalistic bias in experts’ player ratings in football

Christer Thrane

Economics Letters, 2025, vol. 247, issue C

Abstract: Using Norwegian data, we examine nationalistic bias in experts’ player ratings in football (soccer). Controlling for a large set of performance-related factors and possibly confounding player characteristics, we find a statistically significant nationality effect. We interpret this as nationalistic bias.

Keywords: Nationalistic bias; In-group bias; Expert ratings; Football; Soccer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C12 C20 D91 L83 Z20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2025.112187

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