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...

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Autores:
Jetter, Michael
Walker, Jay K.
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Fecha de publicación:
2015
Institución:
Universidad EAFIT
Repositorio:
Repositorio EAFIT
Idioma:
eng
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Palabra clave:
Gender gap
Competition
Hot hand
Clutch player
Tennis
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License
Acceso abierto
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title Game, set, and match: Do women and men perform differently in competitive situations?
spellingShingle Game, set, and match: Do women and men perform differently in competitive situations?
Gender gap
Competition
Hot hand
Clutch player
Tennis
title_short Game, set, and match: Do women and men perform differently in competitive situations?
title_full Game, set, and match: Do women and men perform differently in competitive situations?
title_fullStr Game, set, and match: Do women and men perform differently in competitive situations?
title_full_unstemmed Game, set, and match: Do women and men perform differently in competitive situations?
title_sort Game, set, and match: Do women and men perform differently in competitive situations?
dc.creator.fl_str_mv Jetter, Michael
Walker, Jay K.
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jwalker@niagara.edu
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Walker, Jay K.
dc.subject.keyword.eng.fl_str_mv Gender gap
Competition
Hot hand
Clutch player
Tennis
topic Gender gap
Competition
Hot hand
Clutch player
Tennis
description 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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