This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap … estimates indicate that increasing gender equality in economic or political rights generally deepens the GMG, i.e., it reduces …-income countries. In contrast, increased gender equality in rights reduces the GMG in lower-income countries by facilitating female …

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 …

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 …

We argue that, for a given level of scientific knowledge, tolerance and diversity are conducive to technological … innovation during the second industrial revolution. Religious tolerance is measured through population's religious diversity …, diversity of churches, and diversity of preachers and religious teachers, respectively. Endogeneity issues are addressed using …

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 …

collaborative contact, through random assignment to homogeneous-caste or mixed-caste teams, and adversarial contact, through random … assignment of opponents. Collaborative contact increases cross-caste friendships and efficiency in trade, and reduces own-caste … favoritism. In contrast, adversarial contact generally reduces cross-caste interaction and efficiency. League participation …

Do gender disparities in academia reflect that female scholars are held to higher standards than males? We address this … makes the same career step. In most domains, this reflects a gender gap for "marginal" scholars, consistent with lower merit …