GapinCompetition

This is a 2-year project supported by Horizon EU to  understand gender difference in tournament entry. The first part of the project is implemented in Rady School of Management under the supervision of Uri Gneezy.  In both parts of the project, I plan to use a similar set up to rank-order tournaments, i.e., performance is the sum of effort (transformation of skill) and chance. In  the first part,  I aim to understand how tournament entry decision differs between genders when subjects know both their own and their competitors’ skills but they have different types of information about the chance component: one being that the chance component is drawn from a known distribution (uncertainty), the other one being that it is drawn from an unknown distribution (ambiguity).  Further, we change the number of draws in these treatments: In one scenario, it is drawn once, and in the other, it is drawn twice and maximum of the drawn numbers added to find the performance. The second part of the project will be implemented at METU. In the second part of the project, the set up for the performance calculation will be similar to the first part of the project but this time noise will be drawn only from known distribution. In such environment, we analyze that how tournament entry decision of male and female subjects differs when there is an asymmetry in skills  or when there is asymmetry in number of draws compared to symmetric condition.  

Project Acronym: GAPINCOMPETITION

Project Title: Performance Uncertainty and the level of Female Participation on Tournaments

Project Number: 101064641

Output 1-Year 1-Outgoing Phase of the Project: 

Risk, Ambiguity and Gender Gap in Tournament Entry, with Luke Boosey and Merve Intisah

Output 2-Year 2-Incoming Phase of the Project: 

Unraveling Asymmetry: Examining Skill vs. Chance Asymmetry in Tournament Entry, with Luke Boosey, coming soon