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Title: Gender Differences in Tournament Performance Over Time: Can Women Catch-Up with Men?

Author(s): Alison L Booth, Ryohei Hayashi and Eiji Yamamura

Publication Date: April 2019

Keyword(s): Competition, experience, Gender, mixed-sex, peer effects, random assignment, single-sex and tournaments

Programme Area(s): Labour Economics

Abstract: We investigate the evolution over time of gender differences in single-sex and mixed-sex tournaments, using field data from the Japanese Speedboat Racing Association (JSRA). The JSRA randomly assigned individuals into single-sex and mixed-sex races, enabling us to model learning in different environments. Our dataset comprises over one million person-race observations of men and women making their speedboat racing debut between 1997 and 2012. We find that the average debut-woman's performance (measured by lane-changing and place-in-race) improves faster than debut-men's in single-sex races, but more slowly than debut-men's in mixed-sex races. For the average male racer, the opposite is true.

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Booth, A, Hayashi, R and Yamamura, E. 2019. 'Gender Differences in Tournament Performance Over Time: Can Women Catch-Up with Men?'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=13681