Different but stable—Performance against the opposite sex across age

Anna Katharina Pikos and Alexander Straub

Labour Economics, 2022, vol. 79, issue C

Abstract: There is mixed evidence for gender differences in competing against the opposite sex. We analyze performance data from a sport where men and women can compete directly against each other. Our unique data consists of around 585,000 observations from almost 23,000 mixed-gender ninepin bowling games in Austria and the Czech Republic. To account for possible self-selection into competition against the opposite gender, we use the opponent team’s sex composition as an instrument. There is little evidence for gender differences in Austria. In Czechia, men perform better against women and women worse against men. Both patterns are stable across age.

Keywords: Gender; Performance against the opposite sex; Sports economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D90 J16 Z22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2022.102280

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