authority, the second study also varied the gender of an assigned team leader. We find that a female leader substantially … of the organization in which they are implemented. This paper studies the effect of gender composition and leadership on … influence to women and are less likely to choose women to represent the team externally. We then replicate this finding in a new …

This paper reports about a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on … curriculum. We manipulated the gender composition of teams and assigned students randomly to teams, conditional on their gender …. We find that teams with an equal gender mix perform better than male-dominated teams in terms of sales and profits. We …

We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we … growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably … tournament. Lastly, despite the substantial variation in team size, we find no evidence for free-riding. …

This paper reports about a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on … curriculum. We manipulated the gender composition of teams and assigned students, conditional on their gender, randomly to teams …. We find that teams with an equal gender mix perform better than male-dominated and female-dominated teams in terms of …

We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we … growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably … tournament. Lastly, despite the substantial variation in team size, we find no evidence for free-riding …

tournament. Lastly, despite the substantial variation in team size, we find no evidence for free-riding. -- Field experiment …We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we … growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …

We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we … growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably … tournament. Lastly, despite the substantial variation in team size, we find no evidence for free-riding …

We ran a field experiment to investigate whether individual performance in teams depends on the gender of the leader …. 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 …

voluntary cooperation in team production. Our experimental data suggest an indirect and gender-specific link: Overconfident men …

impact of these changes. Data on team dynamics and gender differences in preferences (risk-taking behavior, taste for … legal mandates. Understanding the effects of gender diversity in terms of economic performance is important to assess the … competition, prosocial behavior) show how gender composition influences group decision-making and subsequent performance through …