Home bias in officiating: evidence from international cricket
(2014)
Journal Article
Sacheti, A., Gregory-Smith, I., & Paton, D. (2015). Home bias in officiating: evidence from international cricket. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 178(3), 741-755. https://doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12086
We use data on leg before wicket decisions from 1000 test cricket matches to quantify the systematic bias by officials (umpires) to favour home teams. We exploit recent changes in the regulation of test cricket as a series of natural experiments to h... Read More about Home bias in officiating: evidence from international cricket.