Mind the absent gap: Gender-specific competitiveness in non-professional sports

Arbeitspapier

There is wide evidence for gender differences in competitiveness 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 consists 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. Surprisingly, gender differences in tight situations do not seem to play a role.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Hannover Economic Papers (HEP) ; No. 652

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: General‡ ; Sports Economics: Labor Issues
• Thema: gender ; gender competition ; sports economics

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Pikos, Anna Katharina ; Straub, Alexander
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
• (wo): Hannover
• (wann): 2019

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/204611
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ