Challenging identity hierarchies: Gender and consociational power-sharing

Information sharing between vertical hierarchies

When do competing principals independently choose to share the information obtained from their privately informed agents? Information sharing a¤ects contracting relationships within opponent organizations and induces players’strategies to be correlated via the distortions channel. We show that principals’incentives to share information depend on the nature of upstream externalities and the corr...

On Profit Sharing and Hierarchies in Organizations

We study the effect of hierarchies on the performance of an organization that exhibits both profit sharing and information sharing. We adopt a server-queue model of effort and intraorganizational competition and quantify the performance of an organization in terms of the overall efficiency and risk in meeting target production levels. On the one hand, we show that profit sharing leads to free r...

Challenging Conventional Wisdom & Gender Work

Risk taking and gender in hierarchies

In a labor market hierarchy, promotions are affected by the noisiness of information about the candidates. I study the hypothesis that males are more risk taking than females, and its implications for rates of promotion and abilities of survivors. I define promotion hierarchies with and without memory, where memory means that promotion depends on the entire history of success. In both types of ...

Challenging gender stereotypes: resistance and exclusion.

The likelihood of resisting gender-stereotypic peer group norms, along with expectations about personal resistance, was investigated in 9- to 10-year-olds and 13- to 14-year-olds (N = 292). Participants were told about a stereotype conforming group (boys playing football; girls doing ballet) and a stereotype nonconforming group (boys doing ballet; girls playing football). Contrary to expectatio...