Why are We So Good At Football, and They So Bad? Institutions and National Footballing Performance
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- Meshael Batarfi & J. James Reade, 2020. "Why are we so good at football, and they so bad? Institutions and national footballing performance," Economics Discussion Papers em-dp2020-17, Department of Economics, University of Reading.
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Development; Contests; Sport;All these keywords.
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- O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
- C20 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - General
- L83 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Sports; Gambling; Restaurants; Recreation; Tourism
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