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Diversity and Team Performance in a Kenyan Organization

Marx, Benjamin M.; Pons, Vincent; Suri, Tavneet - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

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 …

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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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The Impact of Chief Diversity Officers on Diverse Faculty Hiring

Bradley, Steven W. - 2018

As the American college student population has become more diverse, the goal of hiring a more diverse faculty has received increased attention in higher education. A signal of institutional commitment to faculty diversity often includes the hiring of an executive level chief diversity officer...

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Fear, Lockdown, and Diversion : Comparing Drivers of Pandemic Economic Decline 2020

Goolsbee, Austan - 2020

The collapse of economic activity in 2020 from COVID-19 has been immense. An important question is how much of that resulted from government restrictions on activity versus people voluntarily choosing to stay home to avoid infection. This paper examines the drivers of the collapse using cellular...

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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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How Costly is Diversity? Affirmative Action in Light of Gender Differences in Competitiveness

Niederle, Muriel - 2008

Recent research documents that while men are eager to compete, women often shy away from competitive environments. A consequence is that few women enter and win competitions. Using experimental methods we examine how affirmative action affects competitive entry. We find that when women are...

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Diversity and Technological Progress

Acemoglu, Daron - 2011

This paper proposes a tractable model to study the equilibrium diversity of technological progress and shows that equilibrium technological progress may exhibit too little diversity (too much conformity), in particular, foregoing socially beneficial investments in "alternative" technologies that...

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Representation is Not Sufficient for Selecting Gender Diversity

Baron, Justus A.; Ganglmair, Bernhard; Persico, Nicola; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Representation of women and minorities in a "selectorate"--the group that chooses an organization's leaders--is a key mechanism for promoting diversity. We show that representation, on its own, is not sufficient for selecting gender diversity: a supportive organizational culture is also...

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Estimating Benefits from University-Level Diversity

Wolfe, Barbara L. - 2013

One of the continuing areas of controversy surrounding higher education is affirmative action. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Fisher v. Texas, and their ruling may well influence universities' diversity initiatives, especially if they overturn Grutter v. Bollinger and rule that diversity...

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Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity

Alesina, Alberto - 2013

We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people's birthplaces. This new index is then decomposed into a size (share of foreign born) and a variety (diversity of immigrants) component and is available for 1990 and 2000 disaggregated...

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