Gender Differences in Risk-Taking: Evidence from Professional Basketball

That is a new paper by René Böheim Christoph Freudenthaler, and Mario Lackner, the abstract is to the point:

We analyze gender differences in risk-taking in high-pressure situations. Using novel data from professional athletes (NBA and WNBA), we find That male teams Increase Their risk-taking Reviews towards the end of matches When a successful strategy risky secure Could winning the match. Female teams, in contrast, reduce Their risk-taking in contention situations. The less time left in a game, the larger is the gap. When the costs of an unsuccessful risky strategy are very broad (losing the tournament), we find no Increase in risk-taking for male teams.

Do you think we this is generalizable across sports?