Gender differences in the use of high-variance strategies in tournament competition

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 834-849

  Vandegrift, Donald ^a   Brown, Paul ^b  

^a Department of Health and Exercise Science   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Experiment; Gender differences; Tournament

Indexed keywords

EID: 29744432089     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2005.07.028     Document Type: Article

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