De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2022
. About 430 students from an Italian University took an intermediate exam that was partly evaluated on the basis of teamwork …. Students were randomly matched in teams of three and in each team we randomly chose a leader with the task of coordinating the … work of the team. We find a positive and significant effect of female leadership on team performance. This effect is driven …