Competitive Pressure Widens the Gender Gap in Performance
Evidence from a Two-stage Competition in Mathematics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9704804 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nagore Iriberri (0000-0002-0317-0115, University of the Basque Country), Pedro Rey-Biel (0000-0002-1606-2631, ESADE Business School, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 129 |
| Issue | 620 |
| Pages | 1863-1893 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ecoj.12617 |
| OpenAlex | W2339271723 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 33 |
In two-stage elimination math contests, participants from four different age groups compete to pass from stage 1 to stage 2 and later to be among the winners. Although female participants have higher maths grades at school the gender gap reverses in the two stages of the contests. More importantly, following the same individual participant across different stages, we find that the gender gap in performance increases from stage 1 to stage 2. The increase in female underperformance is attributed to higher competitive pressure and alternative explanations based on selection, discrimination and differences in reaction to increasing difficulty are ruled out
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |