Coping with advantageous inequity—Field evidence from professional penalty kicking

This contribution examines the effect of advantageous inequity on performance using natural data from a high-stakes environment. We use data from top-level penalty kicking in soccer and thereby expand the empirical literature dominated by evidence from laboratory experiments to data from the field. Results indicate that, on average, professionals do not perform worse when they experience unfair advantages. However, we find suggestive evidence for a negative effect of advantageous inequity in situations where success is less important. Our results are robust to alternative model specifications and to adjustments for multiple testing.