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Performance in Mixed-Sex and Single-Sex Competitions: What We Can Learn from Speedboat Races in Japan

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  • Alison Booth

    (Australian National University)

  • Eiji Yamamura

    (Seinan Gakuin University)

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In speedboat racing in Japan, men and women compete under the same conditions and are randomly assigned to mixed-sex or single-sex groups for each race. We use a sample of over 140,000 individual-level records to examine how male-dominated circumstances affect women’s racing performance. Our fixed-effects estimates reveal that women’s race time is slower in mixed-sex than all-women races, whereas men’s race time is faster in mixed-sex than men-only races. The same result is found for place in race. Moreover, in mixed-sex races, men are more aggressive, as proxied by lane changing, than women in spite of the risk of being penalized for rule infringement.

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  • Alison Booth & Eiji Yamamura, 2018. "Performance in Mixed-Sex and Single-Sex Competitions: What We Can Learn from Speedboat Races in Japan," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 100(4), pages 581-593, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:restat:v:100:y:2018:i:4:p:581-593
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