TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Böheim, René
AU  - Freudenthaler, Christoph
AU  - Lackner, Mario
        TI  - Do Male Managers Increase Risk-Taking of Female Teams? Evidence from the NCAA
        PY  - 2019/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12144
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp12144
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - corporate risk-taking
KW  - gender difference
KW  - success
        ER  -