Game, set, and match: Do women and men perform differently in competitive situations?
This paper analyzes potential gender differences in competitive environments using a sample of over 100,000 professional tennis matches. Focusing on two phenomena of the labor and sports economics literature, we find robust evidence for (i) the hot-hand effect (an additional win in the most recent t...
- Autores:
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Jetter, Michael
Walker, Jay K.
- Tipo de recurso:
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2015
- Institución:
- Universidad EAFIT
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio EAFIT
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repository.eafit.edu.co:10784/5134
- Acceso en línea:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10784/5134
- Palabra clave:
- Gender gap
Competition
Hot hand
Clutch player
Tennis
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| Summary: | This paper analyzes potential gender differences in competitive environments using a sample of over 100,000 professional tennis matches. Focusing on two phenomena of the labor and sports economics literature, we find robust evidence for (i) the hot-hand effect (an additional win in the most recent ten matches raises the likelihood of winning by 3.1 to 3.3 percent) and (ii) the clutch-player effect, as top players are excelling in Grand Slam tournaments, the most important events. Overall, we find virtually no gender differences for the hot-hand effect and only minor distinctions for the clutch-player effect. |
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