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.
[pdf] [Media coverage: NPR Radio West, Utah Business Magazine, Y Magazine]
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.
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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
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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
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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
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Rationalizing self-defeating behaviors: theory and evidence
Joint with Lars Lefgren & John Stovall
Journal of Health Economics, 2021, Volume 76
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On using interval response data in experimental economics
Joint with James McDonald & Daniel Walton.
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018, Volume 72
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Effort, luck, and voting for redistribution
Joint with Lars Lefgren & David Sims
Journal of Public Economics, 2016, Volume 143
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Run, Jane, run! Gendered responses to political party recruitment
Joint with Jessica Preece
Political Behavior, 2016, Volume 38, Number 3
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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
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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
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Fire-sale FDI: impact of financial crises on foreign direct investment
Joint with Ilan Noy
Review of Development Economics, 2015, Volume 19, Number 2
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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
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Working Papers
Who Ya Gonna Call? Gender Inequality in External Demand For Parental Involvement
Joint with Kristy Buzard and Laura Gee
[pdf] [Media coverage: NPR Planet Money, NPR Morning Edition, CBS Mornings, The Wall Street Journal, Fox 13, The Boston Globe, Slate, ParentData, Scary Mommy, Upworthy, Y News, ABC 4 News, KUER News, Fox 13 News, Syracuse University News, Tufts Now, Church News, The Globe and Mail, CBC Radio, New America]
The other 1%: Class Leavening, Contamination and Voting for Redistribution
Joint with Lars Lefgren & David Sims
NBER Working Paper 24617.
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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