on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board–director matched panel data for Norway and Germany … the gender quota reform on gender diversity. Second, although the Norwegian gender quota has increased the probability of …, when a Norwegian board gender quota came into effect. We present two novel results that challenge previous thinking about …

Can diversity lead to greater research focus on populations underrepresented in science? Between 1960 and 1990, 76 all … coeducation led to a 44% increase in gender-related research publications. This increase is driven by research focused on female … subjects and gender differences. While coeducation led to a compositional shift with more women and researchers interested in …

can impact gender diversity in the male-dominated technology sector, both overall and separately for labor supply and … to be substantially biased against women to result in a lower level of gender diversity than found without AI. … demand. We find that the use of AI in recruitment changes the gender distribution of potential hires, in some cases more than …

Does the composition of governance affect firm outcomes? We exploit the timings and thresholds of a gender quota in … novel design and data on boards, we find that firms forced to comply with the 2011 gender quota in France increased their … updating knowledge. We find that the law is associated with the diversification of boards in terms of gender but also of …

This theoretical paper explores the impact of gender diversity on team production. The key assumption is that men … derive utility from signaling high ability to female colleagues. The analysis shows that some gender diversity maximizes … behavior of male team members, gender diversity has the biggest effects in young teams, and monetary incentives crowd-out the …

This paper examines preferences for gender diversity among co-workers. Using stated-choice experiments with 5,400 PhD … students and university students in Germany, we uncover a substantial willingness to pay (WTP) for gender diversity of up to 5 …% of earnings on average. Importantly, we find that women have a much higher WTP for gender diversity than men. While the …

The persistent lack of workplace diversity in management and leadership may lead to organizational vulnerabilities … increase demographic diversity, there is a dearth of empirical evidence on effective ways to reach them. We use a natural field … different types of signals regarding the extent and manner in which the employer values diversity among its workers. We find …