Lallemand, Thierry; Plasman, Robert Alain; Rycx, Francois - Département d'Économie Appliquée (DULBEA), Solvay … - 2005
This paper examines how professional female tennisplayers react to: i) prize incentives and ii) heterogeneity in ex ante players’ abilities. It is found that a larger prize spread encourages women to increase effort, even when controlling for many tournament and player characteristics. Further...