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Networks and Workouts : Treatment Size and Status Specific Peer Effects in a Randomized Field Experiment
Babcock, Philip S. - 2010
This paper estimates treatment size and status specific peer effects that are not detected by widely-used approaches to … spillovers vary greatly by treatment status. Results highlight subtle effects of randomization and document a low-cost method for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462076
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Marriage Meets the Joneses : Relative Income, Identity, and Marital Status
Watson, Tara - 2009
In this paper we investigate the effect of relative income on marital status. We develop an identity model based on … marriage ideal is a strong predictor of marital status -- but only if he is below the ideal. For white men, relative income … decision only, and relative income is tied to marital status even for those living with a partner and children. Relative income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463874
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The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers : Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood
Chetty, Raj - 2011
Are teachers' impacts on students' test scores ("value-added") a good measure of their quality? This question has sparked debate largely because of disagreement about (1) whether value-added (VA) provides unbiased estimates of teachers' impacts on student achievement and (2) whether high-VA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460958
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Social Capital I : Measurement and Associations with Economic Mobility
Chetty, Raj - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
between different types of people, such as those with low vs. high socioeconomic status (SES); (ii) social cohesion, such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334530
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Social Capital II : Determinants of Economic Connectedness
Chetty, Raj - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
disconnection across socioeconomic lines--measured as the difference in the share of high-socioeconomic status (SES) friends between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334531
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510528
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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 non-profit organization were randomly assigned a teammate, a supervisor, and a list of individuals to canvass. This created random variation within teams in the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510534
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Diversity and Performance in Entrepreneurial Teams
Calder-Wang, Sophie; Gompers, Paul A.; Huang, Kevin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We study the role of diversity and performance in the entrepreneurial teams. We exploit a unique dataset of MBA students who participated in a required course to propose and start a real micro-business that allows us to examine horizontal diversity (i.e., within the team) as well as vertical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510562
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012629495
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480622