%0 Report
        %A Böheim, René
%A Freudenthaler, Christoph
%A Lackner, Mario
        %T Do Male Managers Increase Risk-Taking of Female Teams? Evidence from the NCAA
        %D 2019
        %8 2019 Feb
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 12144
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp12144
        %X We analyze the effect of the coach's gender on risk-taking in women sports teams using data taken from National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball games. We find that the coach's gender has a sizable and significant effect on risk-taking, a finding that is robust to several empirical strategies, including an instrumental variable approach. In particular, we find that risk-taking among teams with a male head coach is 5 percentage points greater than that in teams with a female head coach. This gap is persistent over time and across intermediate game standings. The fact that risk-taking has a significantly positive effect on game success suggests that female coaches should be more risk-taking.
        %K corporate risk-taking
%K gender difference
%K success