Does Gender Matter? Examining the Impact of Coach Gender on Team Success: Evidence from the NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament

Laura Beaudin () and Aziz N. Berdiev ()
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Laura Beaudin: Bryant University
Aziz N. Berdiev: Bryant University

Eastern Economic Journal, 2024, vol. 50, issue 2, No 1, 135-153

Abstract: Abstract We examine the impact of coach gender on the probability that NCAA Division I women’s basketball teams advance to the end-of-year NCAA tournament. Results of our full sample analysis show that coach gender has no significant impact on the likelihood of advancing, providing no evidence for ability as a potential explanation for the decline in women coaches. In the subsample analysis, while we find that men coaches have higher predicted probabilities of tournament appearances in non-Power Five conferences, women coaches are more successful in the elite Power Five conferences, where they have been losing the most ground in coaching positions.

Keywords: Gender; Success; Coaching; NCAA basketball; NCAA tournament (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L83 Z20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1057/s41302-024-00265-6

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