What makes diversity unifying in some settings but divisive in others? We examine how the mixing of ethnic groups in … within schools to obtain variation in the type of diversity that prevails in a peer group. We combine this with a large …-based discrimination, both of which are costly and lead to lower payouts. In contrast, accurate statistical discrimination is ruled out by …

History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status … driven by either racial (gender or ethnic) discrimination or generational discrimination (i.e., young versus old). When the …, academic performance, health status, volume of market transactions, religion, sexual orientation, etc. However, these forms of …

The persistent lack of workplace diversity in management and leadership may lead to organizational vulnerabilities … women are clearly underrepresented in leadership roles. While many firms and other organizations have set ambitious goals to … increase demographic diversity, there is a dearth of empirical evidence on effective ways to reach them. We use a natural field …

to be substantially biased against women to result in a lower level of gender diversity than found without AI. … can impact gender diversity in the male-dominated technology sector, both overall and separately for labor supply and … demand. We find that the use of AI in recruitment changes the gender distribution of potential hires, in some cases more than …

We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of the links between the gender of an entrepreneur, access to finance …, occupational choice, and business performance. Our theoretical model predicts that, when lenders discriminate against women … entrepreneurs, the average entrepreneurial skill of women who become entrepreneurs or enter paid employment as managers is higher …

Using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender … explained little of the gender wage gap, while gender differences in occupation and industry continued to be important. Moreover …, the gender pay gap declined much more slowly at the top of the wage distribution that at the middle or the bottom and by …

Understanding discrimination is key for designing policy interventions that promote equality in society. Economists … out both of these sources of discrimination with respect to gender. Yet, we still detect substantial discrimination … against women. We provide evidence of two forms of discrimination, explicit and implicit belief-based discrimination. Both …

resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender …Women are significantly underrepresented in the technology sector. We design a field experiment to identify statistical … discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we …

In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor's degree in Economics, arguably an …