We present a simple model to illustrate how birthplace diversity may affect team performance. The model assumes that … birthplace diversity increases the stock of available knowledge due to skill complementarities and decreases effciency due to … communication barriers. The consequence of these two opposing effects is a humpshaped relationship between birthplace diversity and …

conflict makes national diversity more salient among existing and potential team members. I exploit this natural experiment to …, the world’s largest hosting platform for software projects, I estimate the causal impacts of a political conflict that …

The question whether ethnic diversity is associated with declining social cohesion has produced much controversy. We … localities in Germany, France, and the Netherlands, we explore a crucial individual-level mechanism: perceptions of diversity. We … not only consider perceptions of the amount, but also of the qualitative nature of diversity. By asking about various …