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Perceived intentionality of societal discrimination as a moderator of preference for and effectiveness of approaches to difference
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
The present research identifies a novel measure of perceived intentionality of societal discrimination and demonstrates its value in predicting individuals' preference for and the effectiveness of different approaches to ...
Early employees of venture-backed startups : selection and wage differentials
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
While much attention has been paid to company founders, very little is known regarding the first set of non-founder employees who join high-growth startups ("early employees"). This paper explores the wage differential ...
Essays in financial economics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
In the first chapter, I examine how financial constraints affect asset allocation, and consequently productivity and asset values. Using a unique dataset of agricultural outcomes, I explore how farmers respond to exogenous ...
Rational spamming
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Advertising on social media faces a new challenge as consumers can actively choose which advertisers to follow. Tracking company accounts, owned by 93 TV shows on the most popular tweeting website in China, provides evidence ...
Estimating peer effects in networked panel data
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
After product adoption, consumers make decisions about continued use. These choices can be influenced by peer decisions in networks, but identifying causal peer influence effects is challenging. Correlations in peer behavior ...
Does health insurance matter for entrepreneurship?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
We study the effect of improved access to health insurance on entrepreneurial rates across industries. We use the 2006 reform of the Massachusetts health care market as our shock. In contrast to previous research, we use ...
Risk management unveiling and taming danger : exploratory search embedded in legitimating routines
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
This paper explores how contemporary organizations manage inherent tensions between productivity and legitimacy in the context of the "risk society." Interviews with executives in large organizations across a range of ...
Technological breakthroughs, entry, and the direction of scientific progress : evidence from CRISPR/Cas9
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Understanding the direction of technical progress is a central issue for the study of innovation. In this paper, I examine how the introduction of a breakthrough research tool affects the trajectory of a scientific field ...
Shorting opaque signals
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
This study uses short interest data to show that quantitative equity investors devote more capital to firm-specific arbitrage strategies in stocks with more opaque earnings. There are also higher strategy returns in stocks ...
Restructuring in corporate law firms : implications of a changing division of labor for organizational inequality
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
How do organizations contribute to inequality? An organization's division of labor is posited to codify inequality through the allocation of work tasks and matching of workers to given jobs. To explore this argument, I ...