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- handle: 10670/1.n0kiu5
- hal: hal-00812984
- doi: 10.1016/j.jebo.2012.09.021
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Performance Pressure Heterogeneity Critical ability Career success D - Microeconomics/D.D0 - General/D.D0.D03 - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles L - Industrial Organization/L.L2 - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior/L.L2.L23 - Organization of ProductionCiter ce document
Olivier Gossner et al., « Performing best when it matters most: Evidence from professional tennis », HAL-SHS : économie et finance, ID : 10.1016/j.jebo.2012.09.021
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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.