Performance in Mixed-Sex and Single-Sex Competitions: What We Can Learn from Speedboat Races in Japan

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Booth, Alison; Yamamura, Eiji
• 署名单位: Australian National University
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/rest_a_00715
• 发表日期: 2018-07
• 页码: 581-593
• 关键词: gender-differences; compete; girls; environments; women; boys

摘要

In speedboat racing in Japan, men and women compete under the same conditions and are randomly assigned to mixed-sex or single-sex groups for each race. We use a sample of over 140,000 individual-level records to examine how male-dominated circumstances affect women's racing performance. Our fixed-effects estimates reveal that women's race time is slower in mixed-sex than all-women races, whereas men's race time is faster in mixed-sex than men-only races. The same result is found for place in race. Moreover, in mixed-sex races, men are more aggressive, as proxied by lane changing, than women in spite of the risk of being penalized for rule infringement.