Gender differences in a market with relative performance feedback: Professional tennis players

David Wozniak

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2012, vol. 83, issue 1, 158-171

Abstract: Recent studies have found that females are less competitive than men. These studies have all relied on a similar framework where individuals have little information about their relative abilities compared to other potential competitors. It has also been found that performance feedback leads to more efficient choices for students and in experimental settings. Professional athletes competing in individual sports typically have access to performance feedback and good information about the quality of their potential competitors when choosing to enter competitive tournaments. In this paper, I use data from the International Tennis Federation (ITF) on tournament entry decisions by professional players to study gender differences in tournament entry and preferences in this competitive labor market.

Keywords: Gender; Feedback; Competition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2011.06.020

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