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Diversity and Performance in Entrepreneurial Teams

Calder-Wang, Sophie; Gompers, Paul A.; Huang, Kevin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

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 …

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Diverse Policy Committees Can Reach Underrepresented Groups

D'Acunto, Francesco; Fuster, Andreas; Weber, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Increasing the diversity of policy committees has taken center stage worldwide, but whether and why diverse committees are more effective is still unclear. In a randomized control trial that varies the salience of female and minority representation on the Federal Reserve's monetary policy...

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The Big Three and Board Gender Diversity : The Effectiveness of Shareholder Voice

Gormley, Todd A.; Gupta, Vishal K.; Matsa, David A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In 2017, "The Big Three" institutional investors launched campaigns to increase gender diversity on corporate boards. We estimate that their campaigns led American corporations to add at least 2.5 times as many female directors in 2019 as they had in 2016. Firms increased diversity by...

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Edmans, Alex; Flammer, Caroline; Glossner, Simon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper measures diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) using proprietary data on survey responses used to compile the Best Companies to Work For list. We identify 13 of the 58 questions as being related to DEI, and aggregate the responses to form our DEI measure. This variable has low...

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Global Value Chains

Antràs, Pol; Chor, Davin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper surveys the recent body of work in economics on the importance of global value chains (GVCs) in shaping international trade flows and multinational activity. On the empirical front, we begin reviewing several variants of the "macro approach" to measuring the relevance of global...

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Hidden Software and Veiled Value Creation : Illustrations from Server Software Usage

Murciano-Goroff, Raviv; Zhuo, Ran; Greenstein, Shane M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

How do you measure the value of a commodity that transacts at a price of zero from an economic standpoint? This study examines the potential for and extent of omission and misattribution in standard approaches to economic accounting with regards to open source software, an unpriced commodity in...

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Value Chain Microfinance

Casaburi, Lorenzo; Willis, Jack - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study the provision of financial services to small firms, consumers, and workers in developing countries as part of value chain relationships: value chain microfinance (VCMF). We first explore how VCMF can both overcome barriers to financial access - including asymmetric information,...

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Global Value Chains and Labor Standards : The Race-to-the-Bottom Problem

Im, Hye-jun; McLaren, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We ask how globalization affects a government's incentives to set labor standards for its workers. In a stylized equilibrium model of global value chains, we find two contrasting results. First, each country chooses stricter labor standards with globalization than it would under autarky, because...

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Artificial Intelligence, the Evolution of the Healthcare Value Chain, and the Future of the Physician

Dranove, David; Garthwaite, Craig - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming production across all sectors of the economy, with the potential to both complement and substitute for traditional labor inputs. Healthcare is no exception. Dozens of recent academic studies demonstrate that AI can contribute to the healthcare value...

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Measuring Domestic Factor Content in Bilateral and Sectoral-Level Trade Flows

Wang, Zhi; Wei, Shang-jin; Zhu, Kunfu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Measuring country origins of factor content in bilateral or sector-level exports is important to understand evolution of regional and global value chains and the roles of individual country-sectors in these chains. This paper proposes a method to distinguish between measures based on backward...

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