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JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
Volume 14, Issue 6, Pages 1372-1400Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/jeea.12180
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- Institut Catala de la Dona [U-8/10]
- Ministerio de Economia y Competicion [SEJ2005-01481, SEJ2005-01690, SEJ2006-002789-E, ECO2012-31626, ECO2015-66027-P]
- Grupo Consolidado de tipo C [ECO2008-04756]
- Generalita de Catalunya [SGR2005-00626]
- Severo Ochoa program
- Departamento de Educacion, Politica Linguistica y Cultura del Gobierno Vasco [IT869-13]
- [ECO2011-30323-C03-02]
- ESRC [ES/M010341/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/M010341/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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It is commonly perceived that increasing incentives improves performance. However, the reaction to increased incentives might differ between men and women, leading to gender differences in performance. In a natural experiment, we study the gender difference in performance resulting from changes in stakes. We use detailed information on the performance of high-school students and exploit the variation in the stakes of tests, which range from 5% to 27% of the final grade. We find that female students outperform male students in all tests-but to a relatively larger degree when the stakes are low. The gender gap disappears in tests taken at the end of high school, which count for 50% of the university entry grade.
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