Impressive data, identification, and model. Wow!

Anna Weber Betsey Stevenson Nusrat Jimi Morgan Hardy gisellakagy Abi Adams Ioana Marinescu Ashley Swanson Yiqun Chen Closing Day 1: Does gender diversity benefit students? A multi-year field experiment by Xiaoyue Shan shows that gender diversity within peer groups enhances academic performance. Why? It fosters social interactions & improves student well-being. Discussion by Raquel Fernandez.

I cannot say enough good things about the Women in Empirical Micro conference. After two years of co-organizing, I had the opportunity to present and simply enjoy all the terrific papers. Check out this year’s papers, and if you’re a junior in micro, apply in future years! #WomeninEconomics

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🧵1/4 "How to inspire people. The answer is not another video of Steve Jobs." This The Economist article features Sticerd & @LSEecon Nava Ashraf @orianabandiera &Chicago's Virginia Minni Luis Zingales paper "Meaning at Work." economist.com/business/2024/… #work

Cc: Jason Sockin Aaron Sojourner R. Jisung Park GiuliaGiupponi Jon Piqueras Denis Sosinskiy Justin Bloesch Virginia Minni

AEA Session on "Inequality Within and Across Firms" Sat 8 AM, Hilton SF - Union Square 13 Work by (1) Isaac Sorkin (2) Virginia Minni, Keiu-Trang Nguyen & Heather Sarsons (3) Ellora Derenoncourt & David Weil (4) me, Ingrid Haegele & Joerg Heining.

CFP: The 2025 Women in Empirical Microeconomics Conference offers a platform for innovative empirical research in microeconomics and seeks to foster opportunities for collaboration and mentorship for early-career economists. Submit papers by Feb. 28, 2025. ow.ly/YRaT50UOeVm

Submit your papers to the Women in Empirical Micro Conference Becker Friedman Institute for Economics, August 21-22! Info here: bfi.uchicago.edu/events/event/c… Please submit by Feb 28.

An examination of the value managers create finds that managers apply different skills in different proportions depending on the production technology in which they are embedded, from Alan Benson and Kathryn L. Shaw nber.org/papers/w33431

Good managers, better matches: Job allocation effects on worker productivity Virginia Minni Chicago Booth ow.ly/o9jY50UWAYk

Deadline for submission for the NBER Organizational Economics Working Group is tomorrow, send us your best work!

Bosses have long adopted underhand tactics to encourage individuals to quit rather than have to sack them. Nudging people to resign by making life intolerable will not win you a manager-of-the-year award. Nor is it an efficient way to thin the ranks econ.st/4gGjUuc

🆕The Economist article features research from Nava Ashraf @orianabandiera Zingales Virginia Minni showing how interventions at a firm reflecting on meaning at work led low performers to either improve or leave, boosting productivity. #estrangedlabor economist.com/business/2025/…

Research from Nava Ashraf @orianabandiera Zingales & Virginia Minni showing how interventions at a firm reflecting on meaning at work led low performers to either improve or leave, boosting productivity, is featured on The Economist economist.com/business/2025/…

Forthcoming in the AER: "Leaders in Social Movements: Evidence from Unions in Myanmar" by Laura Boudreau, Rocco Macchiavello, Virginia Minni, and Mari Tanaka. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

1/3🆕WIP paper from Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera, Virginia Minni & Luigi Zingales- Meaning at Work. What if solving the agency problem didn’t mean more carrots and sticks-but lowering the cost of effort itself? They test a “Discover Your Purpose” program with 2976 employees👇

Evaluating a firm's worker-centered solution to the agency problem: enabling employees to reduce the cost of effort rather than pushing them with performance rewards, from Nava Ashraf, @orianabandiera, Virginia Minni, and Zingales nber.org/papers/w33843

A workplace intervention boosting meaning led low performers to exit and improved performance among remaining staff—ultimately increasing compensation at a global consumer goods firm. Brief by Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera, Virginia Minni, & Luigi Zingales. ow.ly/umU650WhEET

“The rush to retire stems from a loss of meaning and perspective at work" Le Monde highlights new research (Meaning at Work) by Nava Ashraf O.Bandiera, Virginia Minni & Zingales that helping workers find purpose boosts performance + satisfaction. lemonde.fr/idees/article/…