Antonovics, Kate; Arcidiacono, Peter; Walsh, Randall - Department of Economics, University of California-San … - 2003
competitive settings and whether the performance of men and women is affected by the gender of their opponents. The data show that … performance explains at most 27% of this differential. Our results also suggest that men's relative success arises because men … competitors the better men perform. In contrast, we do not find strong evidence that the performance of women is affected by the …