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This paper studies the impact of the possibility to enter a tournament as a team on the gender gap in tournament entry …. While a large and significant gender gap in entry in the individual tournament is found in line with the literature, no … gender gap is found in entry in the team tournament. While women do not choose to enter the tournament significantly more …
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This paper discusses the strategic role of mismatching, where players voluntarily form inefficient teams or forego the … formation of efficient teams, respectively. Strategic mismatching can be rational when players realize a competitive advantage …
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-order tournament. Team members compete in their efforts for the right to propose the distribution of a prize within the team. The …
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players improve the performance of four teams which participate in a tournament, such as in the UEFA Champions League (UCL … improve the performance of all teams, irrespectively if the elasticity of substitution between Super- and Normal- players is … high or low. In addition to that, a U-type performance exists in two teams with the highest and the second high elasticity …
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differences between Super- and Normal- players in the performance of four teams which participate in the UEFA CL group matches …; (ii) whether the expected qualification bonus received by UEFA and paid to the players of the non-qualified teams …, enhances effort and the teams manage to qualify. When performance is measured by points’ maximization, higher wage equality …
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In a real effort experiment with repeated competition we find striking differences in how the work effort of men and women responds to previous wins and losses. For women losing per se is detrimental to productivity, but for men a loss impacts negatively on productivity only when the prize at...
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In a real effort experiment with repeated competition we find striking differences in how the work effort of men and women responds to previous wins and losses. For women losing per se is detrimental to productivity, but for men a loss impacts negatively on productivity only when the prize at...
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Is there a gender gap in mathematics across many low- and middle-income countries? A detailed, comparable test score data is used to analyze this. Micro level data on school performance linked to household demographics shows that the gender gap appears to increase with age. It is shown that...
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the loser-selecting tournament, which means the promotion ratio is more than one-half, workers prefer a low risk approach … or a common approach which peers also know well; on the other hand, under the winner-selecting tournament, which means … results suggest that the loser-selecting tournament is more efficient than the winner-selecting tournament in terms of the …
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Dynamic competitive settings may create psychological pressure when feedback about the performance of competitors is provided before the end of the competition. Such psychological pressure could produce a first-mover advantage, despite a priori equal winning probabilities. Using data from a...
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