performance. Our study is based on evidence from a natural experiment of NBA (National Basketball Association) players: Based on … play-by-play statistics of NBA games in 10 seasons (1818 observations of 345 sportsmen), we identify players who are …

than women's sports. Many people argue that these differences are driven by absolute differences in the quality of athletes … sports. We then move on to our primary research question: Can people truly see differences in men and women athletes? To … answer this question, we use videos of professional women’s and men’s soccer. In some videos the gender of the athletes was …

We analyze gender differences in risk-taking in high-pressure situations. Using novel data from professional athletes … (NBA and WNBA), we find that male teams increase their risk-taking towards the end of matches when a successful risky …