Böheim, Rene, Freudenthaler, Christoph, Lackner, Mario. 2019. Do male managers increase risk-taking of female teams? Evidence from the NCAA.

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@MISC{Böheim2019,
title = {Do male managers increase risk-taking of female teams? Evidence from the NCAA},
author = {Rene Böheim and Christoph Freudenthaler and Mario Lackner},
year = {2019},
url = {http://epub.wu.ac.at/id/eprint/6862},
language = {EN},
abstract = {We analyze the effect of the coach's gender on risk-taking in women sports teams using data taken from National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball games. We find that the coach's gender has a sizable and significant effect on risk-taking, a finding that is robust to several empirical strategies, including an instrumental variable approach. In particular, we find that risk-taking among teams with a male head coach is 5 percentage points greater than that in teams with a female head coach. This gap is persistent over time and across intermediate game standings. The fact that risk-taking has a significantly positive effect on game success suggests that female coaches should be more risk-taking. },
}