Edited by Eva Marikova Leeds, Professor of Economics, Moravian College and Michael A. Leeds, Professor of Economics and Director, Graduate Studies in Economics, Temple University, US

• Contents:Introduction: Women, Sports, and EconomicsEva Marikova Leeds and Michael A. LeedsPART I: WOMEN AND SPORT IN CONTEXT1. Women’s Attendance at Sports EventsSarah S. Montgomery and Michael D. Robinson2. Participation in Women’s Sport in AustraliaRoss Booth and Michael A. Leeds3. Individual Decision-making in a Social Context: The Sociological Determinants of Female Sports ParticipationJudith StullPART II: PERFORMANCE AND REWARDS IN WOMEN’S PROFESSIONAL SPORTS4. Gender and Skill Convergence in Professional GolfStephen Shmanske5. Gender Differences in Responses to Incentives in Sports: Some New Results from GolfKeith F. Gilsdorf and Vasant A. Sukhatme6. Earnings and Performance in Women’s SkiingXiaoGang Che and Brad R. Humphreys7. Understanding the WNBA On and Off the CourtDavid J. Berri and Anthony C. Krautmann8. The Goals and Impacts of Age Restrictions in SportsRyan M. RodenbergPART III: WOMEN IN INTERCOLLEGIATE SPORTS9. The Economics of Title IX Compliance in Intercollegiate AthleticsSusan L. Averett and Sarah M. Estelle10. Revenues and Subsidies in Collegiate Sports: An Analysis of NCAA Division I Women’s BasketballRobert W. Brown and R. Todd Jewell11. The Impact of Increased Academic Standards of Proposition 16 on the Graduation Rates of Women and Men in Division IA Intercollegiate AthleticsB. Erin Fairweather12. Gender Differences in Competitive Balance in Intercollegiate BasketballJaret Treber, Rachel Levy and Victor A. Matheson13. Coaching Women and Women Coaching: Pay Differentials in the Title IX EraPeter von AllmenPART IV: WOMEN IN OLYMPIC AND INTERNATIONAL SPORTS14. Gender Differences in Competitiveness: Empirical Evidence from 100m RacesBernd Frick and Friedrich Scheel15. Do Men and Women Respond Differently to Economic Contests? The Case of Men’s and Ladies’ Figure SkatingEva Marikova Leeds and Michael A. Leeds16. International Women’s Soccer and Gender Inequality: RevisitedJoshua Congdon-Hohman and Victor A. Matheson17. The Economic Impact of the Women’s World CupDennis Coates18. An Economic Analysis of the Sudden Influx of Korean Female Golfers into the LPGAYoung Hoon Lee, Ilhyeok Park, Joon-Ho Kang and Younghan Lee19. Media Coverage and Pay in Women’s Basketball and Netball in AustraliaRoss BoothIndex

’Leeds and Leeds have filled a gaping hole in sports economics with this revealing collection of essays. The economics of women in sports has been too long neglected. By covering everything from women as sports spectators, to women as participants in individual and team sports at the collegiate and professional levels, to women's sports internationally, Title IX, and women's differential response to incentives, this volume not only demonstrates that there is much fertile ground to be studied, but also that the subject matter is both interesting and important.’