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Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an international...

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Racial Discrimination in Local Public Services: A Field Experiment in the US

Giulietti, Corrado; Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2015

Discrimination in access to public services can act as a major obstacle towards addressing racial inequality. We examine whether racial discrimination exists in access to a wide spectrum of public services in the US. We carry out an email correspondence study in which we pose simple queries to...

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Increasing Workplace Diversity: Evidence from a Recruiting Experiment at a Fortune 500 Company

Flory, Jeffrey A.; Leibbrandt, Andreas; Rott, Christina; … - 2018

The persistent lack of workplace diversity in management and leadership may lead to organizational vulnerabilities. White males occupy most high-profile positions in the largest U.S. corporations whereas African Americans, Hispanics, and women are clearly underrepresented in leadership roles....

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Insurance, Entrepreneurial Start-Up, and Performance

Ejrnæs, Mette; Hochguertel, Stefan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

Availability of (partial) insurance mechanisms is arguably important for the decision of (riskaverse) workers to start up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is available to both wage earners and self-employed on a voluntary...

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Entrepreneurial Moral Hazard in Income Insurance

Ejrnaes, Mette; Hochguertel, Stefan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

We study entrepreneurs’ behavioral responses of effort (moral hazard) to avoid business failure.This is done in the context of an unemployment insurance scheme for self-employed, wherewe estimate how much of the transition probability to unemployment can be causally attributedto being insured....

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Entrepreneurial Moral Hazard in Income Insurance

Ejrnaes, Mette; Hochguertel, Stefan - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

We study risk behavior of Danish self-employed entrepreneurs, whose income risk may be driven by both exogenous factors and effort choice (moral hazard). Partial insurance is available through voluntary unemployment insurance (UI). Additional incentives to sign insurance contracts stem from a...

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The Impact of Gender Diversity on the Performance of Business Teams: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

This discussion paper resulted in an article in Management Science. Volume 59 issue 7, pages 1514-1528. This paper reports on a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their performance. Teams consisting of undergraduate students in business...

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Ability Dispersion and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We conduct a large field experiment in which teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. Exogenous variation in - otherwise random - team composition is...

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Ability Dispersion and Team Performance

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

What is the effect of dispersed levels of cognitive ability of members of a (business) team on their team’s performance? This paper reports the results of a field experiment in which 573 students in 49 teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. We ensured exogenous...

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The Effect of Early Entrepreneurship Education: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Huber, Laura Rosendahl; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of early entrepreneurship education. To this end, we conduct a randomized … field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade of … primary school. We focus on pupils’ development of entrepreneurship knowledge and a set of non-cognitive skills relevant for …

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