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Gender gap in admission performance under competitive pressure

SYSNO ASEP	0314842
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Ostatní články
Title	Gender gap in admission performance under competitive pressure
Title	Genderová mezera při skládání přijímacích zkoušek pod konkurenčním tlakem
Author(s)	Jurajda, Štěpán (NHU-N)_RID Münich, Daniel (NHU-N)_RID
Source Title	CERGE-EI Working Paper Series - ISSN 1211-3298 -, č. 371 (2008), s. 1-22
Number of pages	22 s.
Publication form	www - www
Language	eng - English
Country	CZ - Czech Republic
Keywords	gender gap in performance ; test anxiety ; competition
Subject RIV	AH - Economics
R&D Projects	LC542 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS)
CEZ	AV0Z70850503 - NHU-N (2005-2011)
Annotation	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 do not shy away from applying to more competitive programs and perform similarly well when competition is less intense, but perform substantially worse (are less likely to be admitted) when applying to very selective universities. This comparison holds even when controlling for unobservable skills.
Workplace	Economics Institute
Contact	Tomáš Pavela, pavela@cerge-ei.cz, Tel.: 224 005 122
Year of Publishing	2009

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