How Costly is Diversity? Affirmative Action in Light of Gender Differences in Competitiveness

Muriel Niederle, Carmit Segal, Lise Vesterlund

NBER Working Paper No. 13923
Issued in April 2008

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We are grateful to the NSF and the Harvard Business School for generous support. We thank the following institutions for their hospitality: Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and the Department of Economics at Harvard (Niederle), Harvard Business School (Segal) and CEBR at Copenhagen Business School (Vesterlund). The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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