Gender differences in competitiveness: Empirical evidence from professional distance running

Frick, Bernd

doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2010.11.004

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“…This is the opposite result to the one we …nd in our two studies, but this might be due to the strategic nature of our experiment. In contrast, Frick (2011) employs data from professional distance running competitions and …nds, in line with our results, that di¤erences in the competitiveness between female and male races are signi…cantly smaller in races where higher prizes or more prestige are at stake.…”

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“…Nevertheless, we are aware that subjects'characteristics could correlate with gender, e. g. major of study in undergraduate populations, and thus create spurious gender di¤erences. 21 Our subject pool in Study 2 was relatively homogeneous. Our participants were students of Economics or Business, of very similar age and ethnic and cultural background, so we are relatively free from this problem.…”

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Gender Differences and Stereotypes in the Beauty Contest

Cubel

Sánchez‐Pagés

2014

SSRN Journal

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Recent literature has emphasized that individuals display different depths of reasoning when playing games. In this paper, we explore gender differences in strategic sophistication and study whether these differences are endogenous. We report results from two different experiments employing the beauty contest. In the first, large study, we show that females react very strongly to incentives to the extent that gender differences disappear when a monetary prize is awarded. In the second study, we use a within subject design to analyze how depth of reasoning varies with gender priming and the gender composition of the set of players. We corroborate that females display higher levels of sophistication and even overtake males when incentives are provided and gender is primed. On the other hand, males who believe that females are better in the game display higher sophistication when playing against females.JEL Codes: C72, C91, D81, J16

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Gender Differences and Stereotypes in the Beauty Contest

Cubel

Sánchez‐Pagés

2014

SSRN Journal

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“…This limitation in the participant poopl could have affected the scope of the findings, as previous research relating to sport (Hamm and MacLean, 2008) and graduate education (Price, 2008) has found differences in how males and females respond to competitive situations. These differences are likely the result of socialization (Frick, 2011). However, other research (Hibbard and Buhrmester, 2010) that examined competition for winning (in which there is one winner and all others must lose) and competition for excellence (in which participants compete against themselves to improve in a particular skill) found no differences in the incidence of the two types of competition between male and female late adolescents, but greater negative effects for females who were engaged in competition for winning.…”

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Beginning and intermediate piano students’ experiences participating in evaluative performances

Mitchell¹

2016

International Journal of Music Education

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“…Investigating performance of male and female runners, Frick (2011) finds that the gender performance gap is closing due and attributes this to increasing returns to success.…”

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Are All High-Skilled Cohorts Created Equal? Unemployment, Gender, and Research Productivity

2012

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Using life cycle publication data of 9,368 economics PhD graduates from 127 U.S. institutions, we investigate how unemployment in the U.S. economy prior to starting graduate studies and at the time of entry into the academic job market affect economics PhD graduates' research productivity. We analyze the period between 1987 and 1996 and find that favorable conditions at the time of academic job search have a positive effect on research productivity (measured in numbers of publications) for both male and female graduates. On the other hand, unfavorable employment conditions at the time of entry into graduate school affects female research productivity negatively, but male productivity positively. These findings are consistent with the notion that men and women differ in their perception of risk in high skill occupations. In the specific context of research-active occupations that require high skill and costly investment in human capital, an ex post poor return on undergraduate educational investment may cause women to opt for less risky and secure occupations while men seem more likely to "double down" on their investment in human capital. Further investigation, however, shows that additional factors may also be at work. Keywords:Research Productivity, Human Capital, Graduate Education, Gender Differences JEL Codes: J16, J24 1 We would like to thank John Siegfried and the AEA staff for making JEL publication data available to us, as well as Jonathan Lee, Peter Kozciuk, and Ho Fai Chan for excellent research assistance. We thank Mario J. Crucini and Robert A. Driskill for valuable comments and earlier collaborations using this dataset. We take responsibility for any errors that

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Gender differences in competitiveness: Empirical evidence from professional distance running

Cited by 49 publications

References 46 publications

Gender Differences and Stereotypes in the Beauty Contest

Gender Differences and Stereotypes in the Beauty Contest

Beginning and intermediate piano students’ experiences participating in evaluative performances

Are All High-Skilled Cohorts Created Equal? Unemployment, Gender, and Research Productivity

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