Performance gender gap: does competition matter?/
Ors, Evren
Performance gender gap: does competition matter?/ created by Evren Ors, Frederic Palomino and Eloic Peyrache - Journal of Labor Economics Volume 31, Number 3, .
Using data from a natural experiment with high payoffs in education, we examine whether the competitive nature of tournament structure explains the performance gender-gap. We find that performance is statistically lower for women, the variance of performance is higher for men, and the tails of the performance distribution are significantly fatter for men. For the same participants in non-competitive settings with similar academic content, the performance of women first-order-stochastically dominates that of men. We reject differences in risk aversion and ability as reasons for performance gender-gap.
0734306X
Gender-gap--Relative-performance evaluation
HD5706 JOU
Performance gender gap: does competition matter?/ created by Evren Ors, Frederic Palomino and Eloic Peyrache - Journal of Labor Economics Volume 31, Number 3, .
Using data from a natural experiment with high payoffs in education, we examine whether the competitive nature of tournament structure explains the performance gender-gap. We find that performance is statistically lower for women, the variance of performance is higher for men, and the tails of the performance distribution are significantly fatter for men. For the same participants in non-competitive settings with similar academic content, the performance of women first-order-stochastically dominates that of men. We reject differences in risk aversion and ability as reasons for performance gender-gap.
0734306X
Gender-gap--Relative-performance evaluation
HD5706 JOU