American Economic Review
ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)
Gender Gap in Performance under Competitive Pressure: Admissions to Czech Universities
American Economic Review
vol. 101,
no. 3, May 2011
(pp. 514–18)
Abstract
Do women perform worse than equally able men in stressful competitive settings? We ask this question for competitions with a high payoff—admissions to tuition-free selective universities. With data on an entire cohort of Czech students graduating from secondary schools and applying to universities, we show that, compared to men of similar general skills and subject-of-study preferences, women perform similarly well when competition is less intense, but perform substantially worse (are less likely to be admitted) when applying to very selective universities.Citation
Jurajda, Štěpán, and Daniel Münich. 2011. "Gender Gap in Performance under Competitive Pressure: Admissions to Czech Universities." American Economic Review, 101 (3): 514–18. DOI: 10.1257/aer.101.3.514JEL Classification
- I23 Higher Education and Research Institutions
- J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination