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Homophily in Entrepreneurial Team Formation

Gompers, Paul A. - 2017

stronger among males than females. Further, we examine the causal impact of homophily on team performance. Homophily in … ethnicity increases team performance by lifting teams in bottom quantiles to median performance quantiles, but it does not …

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Collaborating with People Like Me : Ethnic Co-Authorship within the Us

Freeman, Richard B. - 2014

This study examines the ethnic identity of authors in over 2.5 million scientific papers written by US-based authors from 1985 to 2008, a period in which the frequency of English and European names among authors fell relative to the frequency of names from China and other developing countries....

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Diversity and Performance in Entrepreneurial Teams

Calder-Wang, Sophie; Gompers, Paul A.; Huang, Kanyuan … - 2022

diversity (i.e., within the team) as well as vertical diversity (i.e., team to faculty advisor) and their effect on performance … course was run in multiple cohorts in otherwise identical formats except for the team formation mechanism used. In several … exogenous to the gender make-up of the entrepreneurial team, the positive performance effects can be interpreted as causal …

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The Impact of Group Diversity on Performance and Knowledge Spillover -- an Experiment in a College Classroom

Hansen, Zeynep Kocabiyik - 2010

in team literature. Our results indicate that male-dominant groups performed worse both in group work and in individually …

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Knowledge-Based Hierarchies : Using Organizations to Understand the Economy

Garicano, Luis - 2014

We argue that incorporating the decision of how to organize the acquisition, use, and communication of knowledge into economic models is essential to understand a wide variety of economic phenomena. We survey the literature that has used knowledge-based hierarchies to study issues like the...

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Diversity in Innovation

Gompers, Paul A. - 2017

In this paper we document the patterns of labor market participation by women and ethnic minorities in venture capital firms and as founders of venture capital-backed startups. We show that from 1990-2016 women have been less than 10% of the entrepreneurial and venture capital labor pool,...

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And the Children Shall Lead : Gender Diversity and Performance in Venture Capital

Gompers, Paul A. - 2017

With an overall lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the innovation sector documented in Gompers and Wang (2017), we ask the natural next question: Does increased diversity lead to better firm performances? In this paper, we attempt to answer this question using a unique dataset of the gender...

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The Impact of Chief Diversity Officers on Diverse Faculty Hiring

Bradley, Steven W. - 2018

As the American college student population has become more diverse, the goal of hiring a more diverse faculty has received increased attention in higher education. A signal of institutional commitment to faculty diversity often includes the hiring of an executive level chief diversity officer...

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Mentoring and Diversity

Athey, Susan; Avery, Christopher; Zemsky, Peter - 2021

This paper studies the forces which determine how diversity at a firm evolves over time. We consider a dynamic model o a single firm with two levels of employees, the entry level and the upper level. In each period, the firm selects a subset of the entry-level workers for promotion to the upper...

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Estimating Benefits from University-Level Diversity

Wolfe, Barbara L. - 2013

One of the continuing areas of controversy surrounding higher education is affirmative action. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Fisher v. Texas, and their ruling may well influence universities' diversity initiatives, especially if they overturn Grutter v. Bollinger and rule that diversity...

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