Örs, Evren; Palomino, Frédéric; Peyrache, Eloïc - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
tournament structure explains the performance gender-gap. We find that performance is statistically lower for women, the variance … of performance is higher for men, and the tails of the performance distribution are significantly fatter for men. For the … same participants in non-competitive settings with similar academic content, the performance of women first …