Publications

The Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative surveyed 10,000 employer businesses in 2022 as part of its annual national survey to assess the current state of U.S. Latino entrepreneurship. We have compiled some of the most pressing insights…

This Research Spotlight provides a summary of the academic literature on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings, including:

• The influence of ESG ratings on mutual fund flows
• The correlation of ESG ratings…

This Research Spotlight provides a summary of the academic literature on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) activities including:

• The relation between ESG activities and firm value
• The impact of environmental and…

Contextual bandit algorithms often estimate reward models to inform decision-making. However, true rewards can contain action-independent redundancies that are not relevant for decision-making. We show it is more data-efficient to estimate any…

Research suggests that White women often experience more gender backlash than women of color in response to expressions of agency. We consider whether this differential in backlash is driven by the match or mismatch of the race of both perceivers…

What conditions enable novel intellectual contributions to diffuse and become integrated into later scientific work? Prior work tends to focus on whole cultural products, such as patents and articles, and emphasizes external social factors as…

This paper presents a model in which people sort between two districts based on economic and ideological preferences. People are either ideologues who prefer redistribution over a public good or non-ideologues who prefer a public good that…

We consider a platform facilitating trade between sellers and buyers with the objective of maximizing consumer surplus. Even though in many such marketplaces, prices are set by revenue-maximizing sellers, platforms can influence prices through (i…

Status-based theories of labor market inequality contend that, even when workers have identical qualifications and performance, employers evaluate them differently based on stereotypes about their status group. Gender and parenthood are status…

Shifting attachments to social groups are a constant in the modern era. What accounts for variation in the strength of group identification? Whereas prior work has emphasized group-level properties and individual differences, this article instead…

The Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative surveyed 10,000 employer businesses in 2022 as part of its annual national survey to assess the current state of U.S. Latino entrepreneurship. We have compiled some of the most pressing insights…

The Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative surveyed 10,000 employer businesses in 2022 as part of its annual national survey to assess the current state of U.S. Latino entrepreneurship. We have compiled some of the most pressing insights…

I develop and test a theory that explains why organizations may struggle to adapt in the face of change even when their members are aware of change, are motivated to adapt, and have the resources to do so. I build on complex-systems theory, which…

The Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative surveyed 10,000 employer businesses in 2022 as part of its annual national survey to assess the current state of U.S. Latino entrepreneurship. We have compiled some of the most pressing insights…

Modern large language models generate texts that are virtually indistinguishable from those written by humans and achieve near-human performance in comprehension and reasoning tests. Yet, their complexity makes it difficult to explain and predict…

If explicitly, blatantly dehumanizing a group of people — overtly characterizing them as less than human — facilitates harming them, then reversing this process is paramount. Addressing dehumanization among American political…