Cognitive Ability and Tournament Entry: Evidence from Three Korean Populations

Syngjoo Choi, Byung-Yeon Kim, Jungmin Lee and Sokbae (Simon) Lee

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Abstract: We compare tournament entry among three Korean groups raised in different institutional environments: South Korea, North Korea, and China. Experiments with a random bonus show that North Korean (NK) refugees enter tournaments less often than South Korean (SK) participants and Korean-Chinese immigrants. The conditional NK-SK difference becomes statistically insignificant when Raven score is included. A choice model with probability weighting suggests that lower cognitive ability is associated with lower expected performance, more pessimistic beliefs, and, within the model, greater aversion to competition.

Date: 2021-08, Revised 2026-08
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