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April 10, 2013 - June 5, 2026

Available Issues

April 10, 2013 - June 5, 2026

Virtual Special Issue
Papers on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Management Science has compiled a list of papers published in the journal in the last few years related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The journal would like to highlight these papers so that we focus on these issues and the research done by the Management Science community. Our hope is that these papers will inform policy, impact education, and motivate new research.

Potty Parity

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Management Science

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    We address the issues of unequal restroom access for women and LGBTQ+ individuals, known as the potty parity problem. We propose a utility model in which users consider gender identity, wait time, and safety concerns when choosing restrooms. We evaluate ...
Non-Bayesian Statistical Discrimination

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Management Science

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    Models of statistical discrimination typically assume that employers make rational inference from (education) signals. However, there is a large amount of evidence showing that most people do not update their beliefs rationally. We use a model and two ...
Closing the Gender Profit Gap?

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Management Science

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    We examine the impact of providing access to mobile savings accounts and improving financial management skills on the performance of microenterprises in Mozambique. The effects are highly heterogeneous: Combining both types of support is associated with a ...
The Price of Imposing Vertical Equity Through Asymmetric Outcome Constraints

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Management Science

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    Vertical equity or fairness is an important aspect in many settings, yet has received relatively little attention in the literature. Recent developments underline the practical relevance (e.g., COVID-19 vaccination policies). It plays an important role in ...
Antiracist Curriculum and Digital Platforms: Evidence from Black Lives Matter

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    In this paper, we examine the impact of racially charged events on the demand for antiracist classroom resources in U.S. public schools. We use book requests made by teachers on DonorsChoose, the largest crowdfunding platform for public school teachers, ...
The Disciplining Effect of Status: Evaluator Status Awards and Observed Gender Bias in Evaluations

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    We theorize that status awards will have a disciplining effect on evaluators, changing how they evaluate. Specifically, status awards will lead evaluators to place less weight on unreliable indicators of candidate quality, such as gender. We test this ...
Scandal, Social Movement, and Change: Evidence from #MeToo in Hollywood

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Management Science

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    Social movements have the potential to effect change in strategic decision making. In this paper, we examine whether the #MeToo movement, spurred by the Harvey Weinstein scandal, leads to changes in the likelihood of Hollywood producers working with ...
Assessing Algorithmic Fairness with Unobserved Protected Class Using Data Combination

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Management Science

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    The increasing impact of algorithmic decisions on people’s lives compels us to scrutinize their fairness and, in particular, the disparate impacts that ostensibly color-blind algorithms can have on different groups. Examples include credit decisioning, ...
The Role of Decision Support Systems in Attenuating Racial Biases in Healthcare Delivery

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    Although significant research has examined how technology can intensify racial and other outgroup biases, limited work has investigated the role information systems can play in abating them. Racial biases are particularly worrisome in healthcare, where ...
The Demotivating Effects of Communicating a Social-Political Stance: Field Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market Platform

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Management Science

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    Despite a recent surge in corporate activism, with firm leaders communicating about social-political issues unrelated to their core businesses, we know little about its strategic implications. This paper examines the effect of an employer communicating a ...
When Transparency Fails: Bias and Financial Incentives in Ridesharing Platforms

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    Providing transparency into operational processes can change consumer and worker behavior. However, it is unclear whether operational transparency is beneficial with potentially biased service providers. We explore this in the context of ridesharing ...
The Isolated Choice Effect and Its Implications for Gender Diversity in Organizations

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    We highlight a feature of personnel selection decisions that can influence the gender diversity of groups and teams. Specifically, we show that people are less likely to choose candidates whose gender would increase group diversity when making personnel ...
Design of Lotteries and Wait-Lists for Affordable Housing Allocation

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Management Science

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    We study a setting in which dynamically arriving items are assigned to waiting agents, who have heterogeneous values for distinct items and heterogeneous outside options. An ideal match would both target items to agents with the worst outside options and ...
Why Won’t You Listen to Me? Measuring Receptiveness to Opposing Views

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    We develop an 18-item self-report measure of receptiveness to opposing views. Studies 1a and 1b present the four-factor scale and report measures of internal, convergent, and discriminant validity. In study 2, more receptive individuals chose to consume ...
An Experiment in Hiring Discrimination via Online Social Networks

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Management Science

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    We investigate whether personal information posted by job candidates on social media sites is sought and used by prospective U.S. employers. We create profiles for job candidates on popular social networks, manipulating information protected under U.S. ...
How Do Gender Quotas Affect Workplace Relationships? Complementary Evidence from a Representative Survey and Labor Market Experiments

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    Gender quotas are frequently proposed to address persistent gender imbalances in managerial roles. However, it is unclear how quotas for female managers affect organizations and whether quotas improve or damage relationships between managers and their ...
Discretionary Remote Working Helps Mothers Without Harming Non-mothers: Evidence from a Field Experiment

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    Because mothers remain disproportionately responsible for childcare, the daily requirement for physical presence at work disadvantages them compared with otherwise equivalent men and childless women. Relaxing this requirement may therefore enhance the ...
Reducing Discrimination with Reviews in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from Field Experiments on Airbnb

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    Recent research has found widespread discrimination by hosts against guests of certain races in online marketplaces. In this paper, we explore ways to reduce such discrimination using online reputation systems. We conducted four randomized field ...
Testing the Theory of Consumer Discrimination as an Explanation for the Lack of Minority Hiring in Hollywood Films

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Management Science

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    The underrepresentation of minorities in cultural industries is a widely publicized problem with far-reaching economic and social significance. It is also one of many industries in which employers suggest that the locus of bias is not within the ...
How Stress Affects Performance and Competitiveness Across Gender

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    Because many key career events, such as examinations and interviews, involve competition and stress, gender differences in response to these factors could help to explain the labor market gender gap. In a laboratory experiment, we manipulate psychosocial ...
Gender Differences in Job Entry Decisions: A University-Wide Field Experiment

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    The gender difference in competitiveness has been cited as an important factor driving the gender gap in labor market outcomes. Using a field experiment with more than 35,000 university students, I explore the impact of compensation scheme on willingness ...
Once in the Door: Gender, Tryouts, and the Initial Salaries of Managers

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    Although women pursue managerial credentials at nearly the same rate as men, gender disparities in wages exist because of the shortfall in wages women sustain relative to men at the onset of their careers. This article develops a tryout approach to test ...
Gender Composition and Group Confidence Judgment: The Perils of All-Male Groups

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    We explore the joint effects of group decision making and group gender composition on the calibration of confidence judgments. Participants in two laboratory experiments, individually and in groups of three, stated confidence interval estimates for ...
Learning to Hire? Hiring as a Dynamic Experiential Learning Process in an Online Market for Contract Labor

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Management Science

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    We know a job applicant’s social category affects an employer’s likelihood of hiring the applicant, but we do not know whether, or how, employers update their beliefs regarding these social categories. I portray hiring as a cognitive decision and examine ...
The Colorblind Crowd? Founder Race and Performance in Crowdfunding

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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 ...
Enculturation Trajectories: Language, Cultural Adaptation, and Individual Outcomes in Organizations

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    How do people adapt to organizational culture, and what are the consequences for their outcomes in the organization? These fundamental questions about culture have previously been examined using self-report measures, which are subject to reporting bias, ...
The Size of the LGBT Population and the Magnitude of Antigay Sentiment Are Substantially Underestimated

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Management Science

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    We demonstrate that widely used measures of antigay sentiment and the size of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) population are misestimated, likely substantially. In a series of online experiments using a large and diverse but ...
Bending the Pipeline? Executive Search and Gender Inequality in Hiring for Top Management Jobs

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Management Science

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    We study the sources of women’s underrepresentation in hiring for top management jobs by focusing on the context of executive search. Using data that include proprietary information on 10,970 individuals considered by a search firm, we examine the sources ...
Bias Blind Spot: Structure, Measurement, and Consequences

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    People exhibit a bias blind spot: they are less likely to detect bias in themselves than in others. We report the development and validation of an instrument to measure individual differences in the propensity to exhibit the bias blind spot that is ...
Algorithmic Bias? An Empirical Study of Apparent Gender-Based Discrimination in the Display of STEM Career Ads

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Management Science

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    We explore data from a field test of how an algorithm delivered ads promoting job opportunities in the science, technology, engineering and math fields. This ad was explicitly intended to be gender neutral in its delivery. Empirically, however, fewer ...
Gender Quotas, Competitions, and Peer Review: Experimental Evidence on the Backlash Against Women

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Management Science

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    This study experimentally investigates gender quotas in light of peer review. We investigate competitions with and without gender quotas and a peer review process that allows for sabotage. Our findings show that the possibility of peer sabotage renders ...
It’s a Man’s Job: Income and the Gender Gap in Industrial Research

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Management Science

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    This study examines differences in income and job performance between women and men in creative, highly skilled jobs tasked with achieving technological inventions. By building on data pertaining to 9,692 inventors from 23 countries, this study shows that ...