There is wide evidence for gender differences in competitive behavior and performance under pressure from experimental economics and single-sex professional sports. We analyze these differences in a sport with direct gender competition. Our unique data consist of over 500,000 observations from around 11,000 German ninepin bowling games of which around 15% are from mixed-gender leagues. Men perform better against women on average, but this is fully explained by differences in ability. Our results are robust to instrumenting for opposite gender using the sex composition of the opponent team. Gender differences in tight situations do not seem to play a role.

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留意缺失的差距：非职业体育中针对性别的竞争行为

有广泛的证据表明，在实验经济学和单性职业运动的压力下，竞争行为和绩效中的性别差异。我们在直接进行性别竞争的运动中分析了这些差异。我们的独特数据包括来自大约11,000场德国Ninpin保龄球比赛的500,000多次观察，其中约15％来自混合性别联盟。男人的平均表现要好于女人，但这可以通过能力上的差异得到充分解释。我们的结果对于使用对手球队的性别成分来检测异性很有帮助。紧张局势中的性别差异似乎没有作用。