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The last decade has seen a growing interest among economists on the effect of diversity on the provision of social … revenues, costs, and profits. We explore this next logical question: how does diversity affect ultimate performance? We have a … office-level measures of diversity and performance over that period. We find some evidence that more homogeneous offices …
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The theoretical impact of genetic diversity is ambiguous since it leads to costs and benefits at the collective level …. In this paper, we assess empirically the connection between genetic diversity and the performance of sport teams … European and the World Championships since 1970. Determining the genetic diversity of national teams is based on the distance …
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We study the GDPR's opt-in requirement in a model with a firm that provides a digital service and consumers who are heterogeneous in their valuations of the firm's service as well as the privacy costs incurred when sharing personal data with the firm. We show that the GDPR boosts demand for the...
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We analyse all the major sources of direct and indirect R&D subsidies in Norway in the period 2002-2013 and compare …
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The persistent lack of workplace diversity in management and leadership may lead to organizational vulnerabilities … increase demographic diversity, there is a dearth of empirical evidence on effective ways to reach them. We use a natural field … different types of signals regarding the extent and manner in which the employer values diversity among its workers. We find …
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We show that culture and diversity strongly influence welfare systems around the globe. To disentangle culture from … redistribution. Finally, we show that redistribution and diversity are linked non-linearly: moderate levels of diversity impede …
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phenotypic diversity across the globe. This paper provides the first evidence that this migration has shaped cultural diversity … along the migratory routes have lower folkloric diversity. This pattern is consistent with the compression of genetic … of differential cultural diversity and economic development across the world. …
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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 …
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can impact gender diversity in the male-dominated technology sector, both overall and separately for labor supply and … to be substantially biased against women to result in a lower level of gender diversity than found without AI. …
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Religious divisions have long played a primary role in major conflicts throughout much of the world. Intergroup contact may increase trust between members of different religions. However, evidence on how inter-religious contact affects individuals' behavior towards one another is scarce. We...
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