We investigate whether the gender of judges as well as the gender composition of juries affect individual performance evaluations using information on single diving competitions at three World Championships. Our results indicate that gender per se does not affect individual opinions, while...

This paper uses 2005-2019 data from the Chinese Basketball Association to assess the determinants of playing time with a focus on the effects of players’ national origin. Playing time is explained by an array of standard performance variables as well as each player’s characteristics (such as...

We analyse gender differences in the response to social pressure. Our setting provides information on decision making by both female and male referees towards rewarding extra time in football. The exact score at the time of the decision allows us to evaluate how much it favours the home team and...

We study strategic investment decisions in multi-stage contests with heterogeneous players. Our theoretical model of a round-robin rank-order tournament predicts that players conserve resources in a current contest to spend more in the subsequent contest if the degree of heterogeneity in the...