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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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Do men matter to female competition even when they don't?
Birk, Erica G.; Lee, Logan M.; Waddell, Glen R. - 2016
men without the element of direct competition, which allows for the identification of psychological effects of competition …
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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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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 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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Tracking when ranking matters
Landaud, Fanny; Maurin, Eric - 2022
This paper investigates the effect of grouping students by prior achievement into different classes (or schools) in settings where students are competing for admission to programs offering only a limited number of places. We first develop a model that identifies the conditions under which the...
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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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Common ownership of competing firms: evidence from Australia
Leigh, Andrew; Triggs, Adam - 2021
limitations of the available data, and the potential implications of common ownership for competition in Australia. …
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Finance, informal competition, and expectations : a firm-level analysis
Brancati, Emanuele; Di Maio, Michele; Rahman, Aminur - 2022
This paper documents the link between finance and informal competition. Using longitudinal firm-level data, we show … that formal firms that are more exposed to the competition of informal firms are less likely to apply for a bank loan. This … informal competition have worse expectations on future sales growth, which in turn are associated with a lower probability of …
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Shining with the stars: competition, screening, and concern for coworkers' quality
Barigozzi, Francesca; Cremer, Helmuth - 2021
We study how workers' concern for coworkers' ability (CfCA) affects competition in the labor market. We consider two … also increases firms' competition for high-ability workers. As a result, CfCA benefits high-ability workers but is …
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