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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION
Volume 84, Issue 3, Pages 767-781Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2012.09.021
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Performance; Pressure; Heterogeneity; Critical ability; Career success
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Stakes affect aggregate performance in a wide variety of settings. At the individual level, we define the critical ability as an agent's ability to adapt performance to the importance of the situation. We identify individual critical abilities of professional tennis players, relying on point-level data from twelve years of the US Open tournament. We establish persistent heterogeneity in critical abilities. We find a significant statistical relationship between identified critical abilities and overall career success, which validates the identification procedure and suggests that response to pressure is a significant factor for success. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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