TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Lallemand, Thierry
AU  - Plasman, Robert
AU  - Rycx, François
        TI  - Women and Competition in Elimination Tournaments: Evidence from Professional Tennis Data
        PY  - 2005/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1843
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1843
        AB  - This paper examines how professional female tennisplayers react to: i) prize incentives and ii) heterogeneity in ex ante players' abilities. It is found that a larger prize spread encourages women to increase effort, even when controlling for many tournament and player characteristics. Further results indicate that uneven contests lead favourites to win more games and underdogs to be less performing. They also show that the performance differential between players increases with the ranking differential. These findings suggest that the outcome of a match is more linked to players' abilities than to players' incentives to adjust effort according to success chances.
        KW  - performance
KW  - sports economics
KW  - tournaments
KW  - incentives
KW  - women
        ER  -