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How Costly is Diversity? Affirmative Action in Light of Gender Differences in Competitiveness
Niederle, Muriel - 2010
, but also on one's rank within gender. Both beliefs on rank and attitudes towards competition change when moving to a more … gender-specific competition. The changes in competitive entry have important implications when assessing the costs of …
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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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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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Diversity and Performance in Entrepreneurial Teams
Calder-Wang, Sophie; Gompers, Paul A.; Huang, Kanyuan … - 2022
intersection of gender and race/ethnicity significantly reduced performance. However, the negative effect of this diversity is … substantially better when their faculty section leader was also female. Because the gender of the faculty section leader is … exogenous to the gender make-up of the entrepreneurial team, the positive performance effects can be interpreted as causal …
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Single-Sex Schools, Student Achievement, and Course Selection : Evidence from Rule-Based Student Assignments in Trinidad and Tobago
Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2011
Existing studies on single-sex schooling suffer from biases because students who attend single-sex schools differ in unmeasured ways from those who do not. In Trinidad and Tobago students are assigned to secondary schools based on an algorithm allowing one to address self-selection bias and...
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A Darwinian Perspective on "Exchange Rate Undervaluation"
Du, Qingyuan - 2011
Though the real exchange rate is a key price for most economies, our understanding of its determinants is still incomplete. This paper studies the implications of status competition in the marriage market for the real exchange rate. In theory, a rise in the sex ratio (increasing relative surplus...
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