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Pré-Publication, Document De Travail (Working Paper) Année : 2021

From Micro to Macro Gender Differences: Evidence from Field Tournaments

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We document that women compete worse against men in field tournaments in over 150 countries and across all ages. Our field setting is the game of chess and we benefit from a large and rich dataset to investigate the robustness and heterogeneity of our uncovered gender differences in competition. We find a macro gender gap in every country: there are fewer female than male players, especially at the top, and women have lower average rankings. Moreover, comparing millions of individual games, we find a small but robust micro gender gap: women’s scores are about 2% lower than expected when playing a man rather than a woman with an identical rating, age and country. Using a simple theoretical model, we show how this small micro gap may affect women’s long-run human-capital formation. By reducing effort and increasing the probability of quitting, both effects accumulate to explain a larger share of the macro gap.
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hal-03389151 , version 1 (20-10-2021)
hal-03389151 , version 2 (02-02-2023)

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José de Sousa, Guillaume Hollard. From Micro to Macro Gender Differences: Evidence from Field Tournaments. 2021. ⟨hal-03389151v2⟩
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