Research

Publications (underlined names are student co-authors)

Strength in Numbers: Gender Composition, Leadership, and Women's Influence in Teams

Joint with Chris Karpowitz, Stephen O'Connell, and Jessica Preece

Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming.

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Leader signals and the power of growth mindset: A natural field experiment in workplace diversity

Joint with Jeffrey Flory, Andreas Leibbrandt & Christina Rott

Management Science, forthcoming.

Sharing, Social Norms, and Social Distance: Experimental Evidence from Russia and Western Alaska

Joint with Lance Howe, James Murphy, Drew Gerkey and Collin West

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, Volume 213

Perceptions of Gender Diversity in Occupations

Joint with Jeffrey Flory, Andreas Leibbrandt, Olga Shurchkov, and Alva Taylor

American Economic Association, Papers & Proceedings, 2023, Volume 13

Increasing workplace diversity: Evidence from a recruiting experiment at a Fortune-500 company

Joint with Jeffrey Flory, Andreas Leibbrandt & Christina Roth

Journal of Human Resources, 2021, Volume 56, Number 1

Rationalizing self-defeating behaviors: theory and evidence

Joint with Lars Lefgren & John Stovall

Journal of Health Economics, 2021, Volume 76

On using interval response data in experimental economics

Joint with James McDonald & Daniel Walton.

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018, Volume 72

Effort, luck, and voting for redistribution

Joint with Lars Lefgren & David Sims

Journal of Public Economics, 2016, Volume 143

Run, Jane, run! Gendered responses to political party recruitment

Joint with Jessica Preece

Political Behavior, 2016, Volume 38, Number 3

Why women don't run: Experimental evidence on gender differences in competition aversion

Joint with Jessica Preece

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, Volume 117

Does the message matter? A field experiment on political party recruitment

Joint with Jessica Preece & Rachel Fischer

Journal of Experimental Political Science, 2015, Volume 2

Fire-sale FDI: impact of financial crises on foreign direct investment

Joint with Ilan Noy

Review of Development Economics, 2015, Volume 19, Number 2

An experimental study on the relevance and scope of nationality as a coordination device

Joint with Andreas Leibbrandt

Economic Inquiry, 2014, Volume 52, Number 4

Working Papers

Who Ya Gonna Call? Gender Inequality in External Demand For Parental Involvement

Joint with Kristy Buzard and Laura Gee

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The other 1%: Class Leavening, Contamination and Voting for Redistribution

Joint with Lars Lefgren & David Sims

NBER Working Paper 24617.

Valuing Diversity: Experimental Evidence of Asymmetric Responses to Diversity in Outcomes

Joint with Jeffrey Flory, Andreas Leibbrandt, Olga Shurchkov, and Alva Taylor

Overview: We conduct a randomized controlled field experiment designed to measure the extent to which individuals prefer or dislike diversity. Our novel task asks the participants in two pools–a tech conferences and online–to evaluate their user experience with an image search engine tool. For the same set of four search words (boss, professor, clerk, and nurse), subjects randomized into the less diverse image treatment view stereotypical images that one would associate with the profession, while those in the more diverse image treatment view a set of images that counter the corresponding gender and racial stereotypes. We observe that diverse images result in significantly higher ratings across all our participants, finding no evidence of in-group bias in this context. However, women are disproportionately more dissatisfied with the inaccurate gender representation among the less diverse images for the stereotypically high-status words (boss and professor) than men are. For the low-status words (clerk and nurse), where the stereotypes are reversed and the lack of diversity appears to be less salient, we find weaker treatment effects and no heterogeneity in the satisfaction ratings by gender or race.

Equilibrium Gender Discrimination in Student Evaluations of Teaching

Joint with Sara Ayllon, Lars Lefgren, Richard Patterson, and Nicolas Udraneta

Overview: Researchers have documented systematic bias by students against female instructors. This has the potential to put female professors at a professional disadvantage relative to their male colleagues. The degree to which any given professor is harmed, however, depends on the equilibrium sorting of students to faculty. In this paper, we present evidence of wide dispersion in student bias against female faculty. We show that the students that demonstrate the greatest bias against female instructors tend to sort away from female instructors. However, there exist female faculty members who are disproportionately exposed to student bias. We present a practical Empirical Bayes method to correct for this bias to bring faculty to a more level playing field.

To punish or to withhold: Experimental Evidence from Kamchatka, Russia

Joint with Lance Howe, James Murphy, and Drew Gerkey

Prospect of economic mobility and preferences for redistribution

Joint with Lars Lefgren and David Sims

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