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Trading Stocks Builds Financial Confidence and Compresses the Gender Gap
Many studies document low rates of financial literacy and suboptimal levels of participation in financial markets. These issues are particularly acute among women. Does this reflect a self-reinforcing trap? If so, can a nudge to participate in…
Preparing for a Pandemic: Accelerating Vaccine Availability
Vaccinating the world’s population quickly in a pandemic has enormous health and economic benefits. We analyze the problem faced by governments in determining the scale and structure of procurement for vaccines. We analyze alternative approaches…
When Dad Can Stay Home: Fathers’ Workplace Flexibility and Maternal Health
We study how fathers’ access to workplace flexibility affects maternal postpartum health. We use variation from a Swedish reform that granted new fathers more flexibility to take intermittent parental leave during the postpartum period and…
Government and Private Household Debt Relief During Covid-19
We follow a representative panel of US borrowers to study the suspension of household debt payments (debt forbearance) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Between March and October of 2020, loans worth $2 trillion entered forbearance. On average,…
Quantifying U.S. Treasury Investor Optimism
When the government commits to a debt policy, the future value of government primary surpluses at all horizons is dictated by the debt dynamics under the risk-neutral measure. We compare the present discounted value of future surpluses implied by…
Family Spillover Effects of Marginal Diagnoses: The Case of ADHD
The health care system commonly relies on information about family medical history in the allocation of screenings and in diagnostic processes. At the same time, an emerging literature documents that treatment for “marginally diagnosed”…
Analyst Forecast Revision Consistency and Bias in Earnings Forecast Revisions
We address whether analysts bias earnings forecast revisions and convey the bias using forecast revision consistency, i.e., the extent to which analyst reports with earnings forecast revisions include stock recommendation and target price…
Do Investors Value Gender Diversity?
(R&R, Academy of Management Journal)
Ecology of Practices: Employer Prestige and Alumni Homophily in Work Ties
In this article we develop a network-ecology approach in which we argue that the position of an organization vis-a-vis other organizations in an external hierarchy — its status or prestige — affects the level of social similarity in its employees…
Egalitarian Effort: How Cultural Scrutiny Produces Gendered Hiring in Professional Sales
Egalitarianism has taken hold ideologically in many countries and has increased women’s entry into white-collar professional fields, but gendered access to professions persists. In this article the authors suggest managers’ cultural…
Enabling Success or Cementing Failure: When and Why Team Charters Help or Hurt Team Performance
A Fair Chance at the American Dream: An Attribution Perspective on Class-Based Discrimination in the Labor Market
(R&R, Academy of Management Journal)
Fairness of Job Fairs: How Race and Gender Influence Relational Opportunities among Early Career Job-Seekers
A great deal of research has documented relational deficits faced by various social groups as they look for jobs, and that disadvantages in job-seeking accrue to these groups as a result of these relational disadvantages. One of the ways…
Gender, Self-Beliefs, and Closing the Initial Salary Gap in Quantitative Field
Scholars suggest more women should enter lucrative jobs like those in engineering and computer science to reduce the existing gender gap in pay, but also point out women’s self-beliefs in their abilities in these domains lack men’s in ways…
Large Auctions
We posit a standard model of an asymmetric double auction with interdependent values in which each trader observes a private signal about a hidden state before submitting a bid or ask price for a unit demand or supply. The state and signals are…
Low-Acuity Patients Delay High-Acuity Patients in an Emergency Department
This paper provides evidence that the arrival of an additional low-acuity patient substantially increases the wait time to start of treatment for high-acuity patients, contradicting the long-standing prior conclusion in the…
A Process Model of Corporate Venture Capital as External Innovation Capability: The Case of JetBlue Technology Ventures
This paper presents a process model of corporate venture capital (CVC) based on field research of JetBlue Technology Ventures (JTV), the CVC unit of JetBlue Airways. We examine how the JTV subsidiary was designed and staffed to enable effective…
Strategic Self-Labeling: Passion as a Bridge and Barrier to Organizational Entry for Job Candidates
The Social Divide of Social Distancing: Lockdowns in Santiago, Chile During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Shelter-in-place and lockdowns have been some of the main non-pharmaceutical interventions that governments around the globe have implemented to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper we study the impact of such interventions in the…
The Subtle Backlash Against Prioritizing Mental Wellbeing at Work
(R&R, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes)