Is Football an Indicator of Development at the International Level?

Robert Gásquez and Vicente Royuela

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2014, vol. 117, issue 3, 827-848

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to examine whether football can be considered an indicator of development at the international level. An empirical econometric model is designed in order to analyse development in terms of GDP per capita as well as in terms of the Human Development Index. Cross-sectional and time-series information are used. The results suggest that FIFA rankings of national teams can be used to complement our understanding of multidimensional development, in particular, in those countries where the availability of information is not as good as researchers would like. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

Keywords: Development; Social indicators; Football; Human Development Index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/s11205-013-0368-x

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