created at firm formation and is inalienable from the founding team itself. To test this hypothesis, we exploit premature … deaths to identify the causal impact of losing a founding team member on startup performance. We find that the exogenous … separation of a founding team member due to premature death has a persistently large, negative, and statistically significant …

We present the results from a field experiment on team diversity. Individuals working as door-to-door canvassers for a … teammates and their supervisor) and external diversity (between teams and the individuals they canvassed). We observe team …

diversity (i.e., within the team) as well as vertical diversity (i.e., team to faculty advisor) and their effect on performance … course was run in multiple cohorts in otherwise identical formats except for the team formation mechanism used. In several … exogenous to the gender make-up of the entrepreneurial team, the positive performance effects can be interpreted as causal …

and transferred to West Germany. This inflow increased the German population by almost 20%. Using variation across …

, Germany, and the United Kingdom, we document striking similarities in spatial differences in unemployment, vacancies, job …