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 …

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 …

This paper estimates social effects of incentivizing people in teams. In two field experiments featuring exogenous team … formation and opportunities for repeated social interactions, we find large team effects that operate through social channels …. The team compensation system induced agents to choose effort as if they valued a marginal dollar of compensation for their …

team size by the number of authors on a scientific paper. Using this measure we find that team size increases by 50 percent … over the 19-year period. We supplement team size with measures of domestic and foreign institutional collaborations, which … capture the geographic dispersion of team workers. The time series evidence suggests that the trend towards larger and more …