conflict. Droughts are a major driver of conflict in Africa, particularly between nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers … drought-induced conflict. One key mechanism is that insured pastoralists travel less far away from their ancestral homelands … to mitigate conflict beyond difficult institutional reforms and raises the question of how governments can support the …

(a). The team’s efficiency may increase considerably with size if outputs are negatively correlated. Under (b) a …

-gender teams perform better. We investigate the two explanations in a lab experiment with students and in an online experiment with … personnel managers. The subjects bet on the productivity of teams of different gender compositions in tasks that differ with … female task and men more often for the stereotypically male task. Subjects do not believe that homogeneous teams perform …

We analyze how the gender composition of teams affects team interactions. In an online experiment, we randomly assign … individuals to gender-homogenous or gender-mixed teams. Teams meet in an audio chat room and jointly work on a gender-neutral team … task. By design, effects on team performance can only work through communication. We find that all-male teams communicate …

Between and within firms, work teams compete against each other and receive feedback on how well their team is … performing relative to their benchmarks. In this paper we investigate experimentally how teams respond to relative performance … teams’ average performance by almost 10 percent. The treatment effect is driven by higher top performance, as this is almost …