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DIVERSITY IN INDUSTRY

The More You Know: Information Effects on Job Application Rates in a Large Field Experiment

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Management Science

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    This paper presents the results from a 2.3-million-person field experiment that varies whether or not a job seeker sees the number of applicants for a job posting on a large job-posting website, LinkedIn. This intervention increases the likelihood that a ...
Leveraging Minority Identities at Work: An Individual-Level Framework of the Identity Mobilization Process

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Organization Science

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    Research on the business case for diversity suggests that organizations may gain important advantages by employing individuals from minority identity groups—those that are historically underrepresented and lower status—such as distinctive perspectives and ...
Race-Related Differences in Promotions and Support: Underlying Effects of Human and Social Capital

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Organization Science

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    This study examined two alternative explanations for disparity in reported work-related experiences and outcomes between black and white managers: treatment discrimination because of race, and differences in human and social capital. Education and ...
The Double-Edged Nature of Board Gender Diversity: Diversity, Firm Performance, and the Power of Women Directors as Predictors of Strategic Change

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Organization Science

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    Diverse boards have been seen as providing impetus for initiating change. However, diversity may introduce conflict and impede decision making, which could hinder the ability of the firm to make strategic change, especially in times when firm performance ...
Is It Me or Her? How Gender Composition Evokes Interpersonally Sensitive Behavior on Collaborative Cross-Boundary Projects

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Organization Science

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    This paper investigates how professional workers’ willingness to act with interpersonal sensitivity is influenced by the gender and power of their interaction partners. We call into question the idea that mixed-gender interactions involve more ...
Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Does Gender Matter?

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Management Science

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    A large literature documents that women are different from men in their choices and preferences, but little is known about gender differences in the boardroom. If women must be like men to break the glass ceiling, we might expect gender differences to ...
How Costly Is Diversity? Affirmative Action in Light of Gender Differences in Competitiveness

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Management Science

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    Affirmative action is often criticized for causing reverse discrimination and lowering the qualifications of those hired under the policy. However, the magnitude of such adverse effects depends on whether the best suited candidate is hired absent the ...
The Impact and Evolution of Group Diversity in Online Open Collaboration

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Management Science

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    Online open collaboration efforts, such as Wikipedia articles and open source software development, often involve a large crowd with diverse experiences and interests. Diversity, on the one hand, facilitates the access to and integration of a wide variety ...
The Colorblind Crowd? Founder Race and Performance in Crowdfunding

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Management Science

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    The dearth of minority entrepreneurs has received increasing media attention but few academic analyses. In particular, the funding process creates challenges for either audit or correspondence methods, making it difficult to assess the role, or type, of ...
A Reconsideration of Gender Differences in Risk Attitudes

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Management Science

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    This paper reconsiders the wide agreement that females are more risk averse than males. We survey the existing experimental literature, finding that significance and magnitude of gender differences are task specific. We gather data from 54 replications of ...
On the Size of the Gender Difference in Competitiveness

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Management Science

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    We design a new procedure for measuring competitiveness and use it to estimate the magnitude of the gender gap in competitiveness. Before working on a task, participants choose what percentage of their payoffs will be based on a piece-rate compensation ...

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