In late 2003, Norway passed a law mandating 40 percent representation of each gender on the board of public limited … corporate sector and decrease the gender disparity in earnings within that sector. We document that the women appointed to these … boards post-reform were observably more qualified than their female predecessors along many dimensions, and that the gender …

, 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 …

We study the relation between gender and job performance among brokerage firm equity analysts. Women's representation …

. Such frictions can help explain part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship, and also have implications for how to design …

also explore the correlation between diversity and state-level variations. Finally, we discuss how these patterns are …

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 by skill level. We show that birthplace diversity is largely …

Does the lack of peers contribute to the observed gender gap in entrepreneurial success, and is the constraint stronger …

This paper studies gender spillovers in career advancement using 11 years of employer-employee matched data on the … positive gender spillovers across ranks (flowing from higher-ranking to lower-ranking women) but negative spillovers within … ranks. The finding that greater female representation at higher ranks narrows the gender gap in promotion rates at lower …