An Old Boys' Club No More: Pluralism in Participation and Performance at the Olympic Games

Marcus Noland and Kevin Stahler ()
Additional contact information
Kevin Stahler: Peterson Institute for International Economics

No WP15-9, Working Paper Series from Peterson Institute for International Economics

Abstract: This paper examines the growing diversity of participation and achievement in the Olympics. A wide set of socioeconomic variables is correlated with medaling, particularly with respect to the Summer Games and women's events. Host advantage is particularly acute in judged contests such as gymnastics. However, there is evidence that the influence of correlates such as country size, per capita income, and membership in the communist bloc is declining over time as competition becomes increasingly diverse. These effects are less evident in the Winter Games, events that require significant capital investments, and judged contests.

Keywords: women; globalization; sports; Olympics; doping (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F69 J16 L83 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cul, nep-his, nep-lab and nep-spo
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.piie.com/publications/working-papers/o ... -performance-olympic (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:iie:wpaper:wp15-9

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Paper Series from Peterson Institute for International Economics Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Peterson Institute webmaster ().