We run a series of experiments involving over 4,000 online participants and over 10,000
school-aged youth. When individuals are asked to subjectively describe their performance …

Offices are social places. Employees and managers take breaks together and talk about
family and hobbies. In this study, we show that employees' social interactions with their …

This article studies the effect of team gender composition and leadership on women's
influence in two field experiments. Study 1 finds that male-majority teams accord …

We investigate how the gender gap in confidence affects the views that evaluators (eg,
employers) hold about men and women. We find the confidence gap is contagious, causing …

Across multiple studies, we investigate whether there are gender differences in preferences
for receiving performance feedback. We vary many features of the feedback context: whether …

We explore how team gender composition affects willingness to lead by randomly assigning
participants in an experiment to male-or female-majority teams. Irrespective of team gender …

We study social learning between spouses using an experiment in Chennai, India. We vary
whether individuals discover information themselves or must instead learn what their spouse …

This paper studies a key element of discrimination, namely, when stereotypes translate into
discriminatory actions. Using a hiring experiment, we rule out taste-based discrimination by …

We conduct a large-scale natural field experiment with a Fortune 500 company to test
several light-touch approaches to attract minorities to high-profile positions. A total of 5,000 …

Women avoid competition even when they can benefit from potential rewards. It may be that
a gender difference in beliefs about future performance drives this gap. Using a laboratory …