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Gender in jeopardy! : the role of opponent gender in high-stakes competition

Jetter, Michael; Walker, Jay K. - 2016

Using 4,279 episodes of the popular US game show Jeopardy!, we analyze whether the opponents' gender is able to explain the gender gap in competitive behavior. Our findings indicate that gender differences disappear when women compete against men. This result is surprising, but emerges with...

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How uncertainty and ambiguity in tournaments affect gender differences in competitive behavior

Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - 2019

. Men also increase their willingness to enter competition in the presence of ambiguity. Overall, both effects contribute to …

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What drives differences in management?

Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - 2017

: competition, business environment, learning spillovers and human capital. Collectively, these drivers account for about a third of …

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Competition and subsequent risk-taking behaviour : heterogeneity across gender and outcomes

Filippin, Antonio; Gioia, Francesca - 2017

This paper studies if competition affects subsequent risk-taking behaviour by means of a laboratory experiment that … manipulates the degree of competitiveness of the environment under equivalent monetary incentives. We find that competition …

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Game, set, and match : do women and men perform differently in competitive situations?

Jetter, Michael; Walker, Jay K. - 2015

This paper analyzes potential gender differences in competitive environments using a sample of over 100,000 professional tennis matches. We focus on two phenomena of the labor and sports economics literature: the hot-hand and clutch-player effects. First, we find strong evidence for the hot-hand...

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Gender gaps in competition : new experimental evidence from UK professionals

Clot, Sophie; Della Giusta, Marina; Razzu, Giovanni - 2020

towards competition in a sample of UK professionals working in two different companies. We find no gender differences in … attitudes towards competition nor in performance under a competitive reward scheme. This results qualifies the findings of a … large number of experimental studies that show that women are more likely than men to shy away from competition. We also …

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Where to look for the morals in markets?

Sutter, Matthias; Huber, Jürgen; Kirchler, Michael; … - 2016

Markets are ubiquitous in our daily life and, despite many imperfections, they are a great source of human welfare. Nevertheless, there is a heated recent debate on whether markets erode social responsibility and moral behavior. In fact, competitive pressure on markets may create strong...

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Gender differences in strategic behaviour under competitive pressure : evidence on omission patterns in university entrance examinations

Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2014

This paper studies gender differences in performance in university entrance examinations. We exploit data from the exams that the nine Finnish universities providing education in economics and business use to choose their students. These exams are multiple choice tests where wrong answers are...

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The persistent effect of competition on prosociality

Kosse, Fabian; Rajan, Ranjita; Tincani, Michela M. - 2023

We present the first causal evidence on the persistent impact of enduring competition on prosociality. Inspired by the … competition period. 4-year follow-up data indicate that the effect persists and generalizes, suggesting a change in traits and not …

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Do women give up competing more easily? : evidence from speedcubers

Fang, Chao; Zhang, Ernest; Zhang, Junfu - 2021

barely made or missed the cut for the second round in a competition, we examine their likelihood of joining another … competition in the future. We find a significant gender difference: Whereas boys are slightly discouraged by failing to qualify …

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