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Do women give up competing more easily? : evidence from speedcubers
Fang, Chao; Zhang, Ernest; Zhang, Junfu - 2021
We analyze a large sample of participants in mixed-gender Rubik's Cube competitions. Focusing on participants who 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...
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Do Women Give Up Competing More Easily? Evidence from Speedcubers
Fang, Chao; Zhang, Ernest; Zhang, Junfu - 2021
We analyze a large sample of participants in mixed-gender Rubik's Cube competitions. Focusing on participants who 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223784
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Volunteering and Competitiveness on the Labour Market in Times of Crisis : Student's Attitudes
Maškarin Ribarić, Helga; Radović Nimac, Korana; … - 2013
being one of the main obstacles for that. The question arises: How can students increase their competitiveness and … employment chances on the labour market while still studying? This paper explores the attitudes of students towards volunteering … and considers volunteerism as a means of increasing their competitiveness on the labour market. Various forms of student …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014156001
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Gender Differences in Reaction to Psychological Pressure: Evidence from Tennis Players
De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2015
Using data on about 35,000 professional tennis matches, we test whether men and women react differently to psychological pressure arising from the outcomes of sequential stages in a competition. We show that, with respect to males, females losing the first set are much more likely to play poorly...
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Gender differences in risk-taking: Evidence from professional basketball
Böheim, René; Freudenthaler, Christoph; Lackner, Mario - 2016
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 risktaking towards the end of matches when a successful risky strategy could secure winning the match. Female teams, in...
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Career Lotto: Labor Supply in Winner-Take-All Markets
Grove, Wayne A.; Jetter, Michael; Papps, Kerry L. - 2018
Are people prone to selecting occupations with highly skewed income distributions despite minuscule chances of success? Assembling a comprehensive pool of potential teenage entrants into professional tennis (a typical winner-take-all market), we construct objective measures of relative ability...
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Psychological Momentum and Gender
Cohen-Zada, Danny; Krumer, Alex; Shtudiner, Ze'ev - 2016
We exploit a natural experiment in which two professionals compete in a one-stage contest without strategic motives and where one contestant has a clear exogenous psychological momentum advantage over the other in order to estimate the causal effect of psychological momentum on performance. We...
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Assessing the role of women in tourism related sectors in the Caribbean
Pastore, Francesco; Webster, Allan; Hope, Kevin - 2020
This study contributes to the rapidly growing literature on women in tourism. It focuses on a group of 13 Caribbean countries. The study analyses the impact of women in apical positions within firms (top manager or owner) on firm performance – productivity, profitability and female employment....
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Assessing the Role of Women in Tourism Related Sectors in the Caribbean
Pastore, Francesco; Webster, Allan; Hope, Kevin - 2020
This study contributes to the rapidly growing literature on women in tourism. It focuses on a group of 13 Caribbean countries. The study analyses the impact of women in apical positions within firms (top manager or owner) on firm performance – productivity, profitability and female employment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270164
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Good Girl, Bad Boy: Corrupt Behavior in Professional Tennis
Jetter, Michael; Walker, Jay K. - 2015
This paper identifies matches on the male and female professional tennis tours in which one player faces a high payoff from being "on the bubble" of direct entry into one of the lucrative Grand Slam tournaments, while their opposition does not. Analyzing over 378,000 matches provides strong...
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