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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 215-233 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Journal of Sports Economics |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Early online date | 22 Nov 2019 |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 2020 |
Abstract
There is wide evidence for gender differences in competitive behavior and performance under pressure from experimental economics and single-sex professional sports. We analyze these differences in a sport with direct gender competition. Our unique data consist of over 500,000 observations from around 11,000 German ninepin bowling games of which around 15% are from mixed-gender leagues. Men perform better against women on average, but this is fully explained by differences in ability. Our results are robust to instrumenting for opposite gender using the sex composition of the opponent team. Gender differences in tight situations do not seem to play a role.
Keywords
- gender, gender competition, sports economics
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all)
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)
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In: Journal of Sports Economics, Vol. 21, No. 3, 04.2020, p. 215-233.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Mind the Absent Gap
T2 - Gender-Specific Competitive Behavior in Nonprofessional Sports
AU - Pikos, Anna Katharina
AU - Straub, Alexander
N1 - Funding Information: The authors would like to thank Franziska Braschke, Knut Gerlach, Pavel Jelnov, Patrick Puhani, Reinhard Weisser, the participants of the Hannover research seminar, Annual Meeting of the Scottish Economic Society 2018, RES PhD meetings 2018, Annual Meeting of the Irish Economic Association 2019, and IAAE 2019, two anonymous referees, and the editor. The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
PY - 2020/4
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