Backus, Peter; Cubel, Maria; Guid, Matej; … - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 14 (2023) 1, pp. 349-380
This paper studies gender differences in performance in a male‐dominated competitive environment chess tournaments. We … find that the gender composition of chess games affects the behaviors of both men and women in ways that worsen the … losing to women. Our results shed some light on the behavioral changes that lead to differential outcomes when the gender …