We test the soccer myth suggesting that a particularly good moment to score a goal is just before half time. To this …

national soccer team within a country to identify the causal impact of gender equality on women’s soccer performance. In … success of male and female national soccer teams. Our results reveal that differences in male and female labor force … participation rates and life expectancies are able to explain the international soccer performance of female teams, but not that of …

soccer, American football and tennis and also use our framework to compare the performance of empirically applied ranking …