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We summarize existing empirical findings regarding the adoption of robotics and AI and its effects on aggregated labor and productivity, and argue for more systematic collection of the use of these technologies at the firm level. Existing empirical work primarily uses statistics aggregated by...
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also face issues of selection bias from college choice behaviors. In this research we use Wave 3 of Add Health, collected …
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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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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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Recent research documents that while men are eager to compete, women often shy away from competitive environments. A …
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This research advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that interpersonal population diversity, rather than …
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; current innovations in research lines that will be profitable in the future are discouraged because current innovations are … research portfolio and would induce a higher growth rate than the equilibrium allocation. The diversity of researchers is a … or ideas may choose non-profit maximizing and thus more diverse research portfolios, indirectly contributing to economic …
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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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discussing areas for future research …
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We study the role of diversity and performance in the entrepreneurial teams. We exploit a unique dataset of MBA students who participated in a required course to propose and start a real micro-business that allows us to examine horizontal diversity (i.e., within the team) as well as vertical...
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