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Diversity and Performance in Entrepreneurial Teams

Calder-Wang, Sophie; Gompers, Paul A.; Huang, Kanyuan … - 2022

diversity (i.e., within the team) as well as vertical diversity (i.e., team to faculty advisor) and their effect on performance … course was run in multiple cohorts in otherwise identical formats except for the team formation mechanism used. In several … exogenous to the gender make-up of the entrepreneurial team, the positive performance effects can be interpreted as causal …

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Estimating Benefits from University-Level Diversity

Wolfe, Barbara - 2013

One of the continuing areas of controversy surrounding higher education is affirmative action. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Fisher v. Texas, and their ruling may well influence universities' diversity initiatives, especially if they overturn Grutter v. Bollinger and rule that diversity...

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Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2013

We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people's birthplaces. This new index is then decomposed into a size (share of foreign born) and a variety (diversity of immigrants) component and is available for 1990 and 2000 disaggregated...

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The Impact of Chief Diversity Officers on Diverse Faculty Hiring

Bradley, Steven W. - 2018

As the American college student population has become more diverse, the goal of hiring a more diverse faculty has received increased attention in higher education. A signal of institutional commitment to faculty diversity often includes the hiring of an executive level chief diversity officer...

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How Costly is Diversity? Affirmative Action in Light of Gender Differences in Competitiveness

Niederle, Muriel - 2010

Recent research documents that while men are eager to compete, women often shy away from competitive environments. A consequence is that few women enter and win competitions. Using experimental methods we examine how affirmative action affects competitive entry. We find that when women are...

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Diversity and Conflict

Arbatli, Cemal Eren - 2015

This research advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that interpersonal population diversity, rather than fractionalization or polarization across ethnic groups, has been pivotal to the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrasocietal conflicts. Exploiting an...

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Fear, Lockdown, and Diversion : Comparing Drivers of Pandemic Economic Decline 2020

Goolsbee, Austan D. - 2020

The collapse of economic activity in 2020 from COVID-19 has been immense. An important question is how much of that resulted from government restrictions on activity versus people voluntarily choosing to stay home to avoid infection. This paper examines the drivers of the collapse using cellular...

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Diversity in Innovation

Gompers, Paul A. - 2017

In this paper we document the patterns of labor market participation by women and ethnic minorities in venture capital firms and as founders of venture capital-backed startups. We show that from 1990-2016 women have been less than 10% of the entrepreneurial and venture capital labor pool,...

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Letting Down the Team? Evidence of Social Effects of Team Incentives

Babcock, Philip - 2011

This paper estimates social effects of incentivizing people in teams. In two field experiments featuring exogenous team … formation and opportunities for repeated social interactions, we find large team effects that operate through social channels …. The team compensation system induced agents to choose effort as if they valued a marginal dollar of compensation for their …

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Six Decades of Top Economics Publishing : Who and How?

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2012

Presenting data on all full-length articles published in the three top general economics journals for one year in each of the 1960s through 2010s, I analyze how patterns of co-authorship, age structure and methodology have changed, and what the possible causes of these changes may have been. The...

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