Séminaire externe du LERN – Jeudi 02 avril à 12h
Jeudi prochain (le 02 avril 2026), nous aurons le plaisir d’écouter Jose de Sousa (LEMMA, Université Panthéon-Assas) qui présentera l’article suivant : Competing Apart or Together? Gender, Performance, and Participation (avec Kieran de Marcellus).
Abstract:
How does competition design affect gender gaps in participation and performance? Many environments allocate ranks, prizes, and advancement through tournament-like rules, and altering these rules can change incentives to enter and invest in effort. We exploit staggered reforms in youth chess in France that eliminated girls-only regional qualifiers in some regions, leaving only mixed-gender qualifiers for access to the national championship. Difference-in-differences estimates show no impact on girls’ entry into regional tournaments, but a decline in girls’ performance following the move to mixed-only qualification. At the national level, qualified girls from mixed-only regions perform about 5% better than girls qualifying through female-only tournaments. However, among girls who do not participate in qualifications, those in mixed-only regions tend to quit at higher rates. Overall, the results suggest that moving from segmented to mixed competition can affect performance and participation.