IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/pal/easeco/v50y2024i2d10.1057_s41302-024-00265-6.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

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

Author

Listed:
  • Laura Beaudin

    (Bryant University)

  • Aziz N. Berdiev

    (Bryant University)

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.

Suggested Citation

  • Laura Beaudin & Aziz N. Berdiev, 2024. "Does Gender Matter? Examining the Impact of Coach Gender on Team Success: Evidence from the NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament," Eastern Economic Journal, Palgrave Macmillan;Eastern Economic Association, vol. 50(2), pages 135-153, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:easeco:v:50:y:2024:i:2:d:10.1057_s41302-024-00265-6
    DOI: 10.1057/s41302-024-00265-6
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://link.springer.com/10.1057/s41302-024-00265-6
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1057/s41302-024-00265-6?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. John F. Borland & Jennifer E. Bruening, 2010. "Navigating barriers: A qualitative examination of the under-representation of Black females as head coaches in collegiate basketball," Sport Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(4), pages 407-420, October.
    2. Laura Beaudin & Aziz N. Berdiev, 2022. "The cost of winning: Does athletic expenditure impact the probability that teams advance to the NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament? A comparison of men’s and women’s outcomes," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 54(36), pages 4154-4169, August.
    3. Dixon, Marlene A. & Bruening, Jennifer E., 2005. "Perspectives on Work-Family Conflict in Sport: An Integrated Approach," Sport Management Review, Elsevier, vol. 8(3), pages 227-253, November.
    4. Marlene A. Dixon & Jennifer E. Bruening, 2005. "Perspectives on Work-Family Conflict in Sport: An Integrated Approach," Sport Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 8(3), pages 227-253, September.
    5. Carlos Gomez-Gonzalez & Helmut Dietl & Cornel Nesseler, 2019. "Does performance justify the underrepresentation of women coaches? Evidence from professional women’s soccer," Sport Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(5), pages 640-651, December.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Burton, Laura J., 2015. "Underrepresentation of women in sport leadership: A review of research," Sport Management Review, Elsevier, vol. 18(2), pages 155-165.
    2. Judith Solanas & Ingrid Hinojosa-Alcalde & Anna Vilanova & Susanna Soler, 2022. "Is Sport Coaching a Social Sustainable Profession for Women? Analysing the Experiences of Women Coaches in Spain," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(13), pages 1-15, June.
    3. Pfister, Gertrud & Radtke, Sabine, 2006. "Dropping Out: Why Male and Female Leaders in German Sports Federations Break Off Their Careers," Sport Management Review, Elsevier, vol. 9(2), pages 111-139, September.
    4. Cunningham, George B., 2006. "Examining the Relationships among Coping with Change, Demographic Dissimilarity and Championing Behaviour," Sport Management Review, Elsevier, vol. 9(3), pages 253-270, November.
    5. Doherty, Alison, 2013. "Investing in sport management: The value of good theory," Sport Management Review, Elsevier, vol. 16(1), pages 5-11.
    6. E. Frank Stephenson, 2024. "International Competitions, Star Players, and NWSL Attendance," Journal of Sports Economics, , vol. 25(2), pages 186-199, February.
    7. Palmer, Farah R. & Leberman, Sarah I., 2009. "Elite athletes as mothers: Managing multiple identities," Sport Management Review, Elsevier, vol. 12(4), pages 241-254, November.
    8. Dilger, Alexander & Scharfenkamp, Katrin, 2020. "Ist die Vergütung im Fußball geschlechtergerecht? [Is the remuneration in football gender-equitable?]," Discussion Papers of the Institute for Organisational Economics 1/2020, University of Münster, Institute for Organisational Economics.
    9. Rasmus K. Storm & Cornel Nesseler & Marthe Holum & Andreas Nygaard & Tor Georg Jakobsen, 2023. "Ethnic discrimination in Scandinavia: evidence from a field experiment in women’s amateur soccer," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 10(1), pages 1-10, December.
    10. Quinn A. W. Keefer, 2022. "Sex Differences in High-Level Managerial Jobs: Evidence From Professional Basketball," Journal of Sports Economics, , vol. 23(3), pages 301-328, April.
    11. Ulf Rinne & Hendrik Sonnabend, 2022. "Female workers, male managers: Gender, leadership, and risk‐taking," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 88(3), pages 906-930, January.
    12. Bopp, Trevor & Vadeboncoeur, Joshua D. & Turick, Robert, 2020. "The conceptualization of racial tasking: Uncovering the (un)intended consequences," Sport Management Review, Elsevier, vol. 23(4), pages 601-614.
    13. Cunningham, George B., 2013. "Theory and theory development in sport management," Sport Management Review, Elsevier, vol. 16(1), pages 1-4.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Gender; Success; Coaching; NCAA basketball; NCAA tournament;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • Z20 - Other Special Topics - - Sports Economics - - - General
    • L83 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Sports; Gambling; Restaurants; Recreation; Tourism

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:easeco:v:50:y:2024:i:2:d:10.1057_s41302-024-00265-6. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.