Gender Gap in Performance under Competitive Pressure: Admissions to Czech Universities

By Š. Jurajda, Daniel Münich. 2011

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Tournament Incentives in the Field: Gender Differences in the Workplace (2013, background): “In non-experimental settings, underperformance of women under competitive pressure is found in student admissions to schools (Jurajda and Münich 2011 and Örs et al. 2008) and in Grand Slam tennis (Paserman 2007).”
Mathematics and Gender: Heterogeneity in Causes and Consequences (2016, unknown): “To reconcile this finding with the fact that males dominate at the top of the Mathematics test score distribution, we refer to Jurajda and Münich (2011) and Örs, Palomino and Peyrache (2013), who find that females underperform in high-stake tests relative to males with similar abilities, and to…”
Behavioral Economics of Education (2015, background): “The relative performance of men and women in highly competitive exams is investigated in three studies using data from ntrance exams for university programs (Ors et al., 2013; Jurajda and Münich, 2011; Pekkarinen, 2014).”
Competitive Pressure Widens the Gender Gap in Performance: Evidence from a Two-stage Competition in Mathematics (2019, background): “There are three papers related to our work: Jurajda and Münich (2011) examine multiple university entry exams taken by the same individuals and find that men perform better than women in those for more competitive institutions, but no such difference exists in exams for less competitive schools. Sim”