Forthcoming: And the children shall lead: Gender diversity and performance in venture capital Sophie Calder-Wang (Sophie Calder-Wang), The Wharton School Paul A. Gompers, Harvard Business School sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We found that the Ellen Pao v. Kleiner Perkins gender discrimination lawsuit led to increased hiring of women investors in venture capital. Here is a short summary:

Using a new method of analyzing discrete-choice models with state dependence and individual-by-product fixed effects to examine health insurance choices, from Ariel Pakes, Jack R. Porter, Mark Shepard, and Sophie Calder-Wang nber.org/papers/w29025

On the topic of bias when it comes to defining the metric.

What PDF annotation apps do you use on your iPad? I am trying to print out fewer pages and would like to find an app that can sync my files and scribbles across all devices. Suggestions please!

If you know of awesome undergrads interested in an RA position at Wharton, please share with them the job posting below. I am working in exciting areas related to IO, household finance and innovation.

📢The next WEFI is Monday 10/4 @ 12pm ET. Emmanuel Yimfor (Ross School of Business) presents "Startup Experience, Venture Capital Experience, and First-time Venture Fund Performance". Discussed by Sophie Calder-Wang Sophie Calder-Wang (Wharton). Register: bit.ly/3CLaAl8

October Editor's Choice And the children shall lead: Gender diversity and performance in venture capital Interesting paper that examines whether gender diversity enhances VC performance. Paul Gompers, Harvard Business School Sophie Calder-Wang, The Wharton School sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I was a bit nervous when Freakonomics asked me to talk about my research on diversity and performance. Here is the bottom line: Whether team diversity is good for performance or not depends crucially on how diversity was fostered. freakonomics.com/podcast/discri… via @freakonomics

Had a good conversation when interviewed with Freakonomics on the topic of diversity and performance in firms:

What bibliography manager do you recommend? I need something that could: 1. Manage multiple folders of PDFs on PC (and Mac). 2. Integration with Latex and Word 3. Being able to search the PDFs. I have used Mendeley before, but the user experience is not good. Any recommendations?

What do you make of the results below? Teams with more women do better when they are taught by female professors - in an MBA business course. Why is that?

Venture Capital's 'Me Too' Moment: What has caused the historically low rate of hiring of women in the #venturecapital sector? Find the Answer: spkl.io/60194Rb3T Subscribe for Free: spkl.io/60104Rb3p Sophie Calder-Wang The Wharton School #genderdiversity #discrimination

Nature experimental paper finds in person meetings raises innovation by about 15% Randomized Control Trial paper finds WFH 2 days a week reduces employee quits by 35% Hybrid #WFH can deliver both 3 office days for better innovation 2 home days for better employee retention

We are hiring full time RAs at Wharton - especially relevant for undergrads and masters students interested in housing and household finance. Please feel free to circulate with interested students!

After our original flight from Philadelphia to Shanghai got cancelled due to a crew issue, #delta decided to rebook mom and dad with our fifteen month old baby on two separate middle seats for a fifteen hour flight. I guess #delta is very family friendly :(

After our original flight from Philadelphia to Shanghai got cancelled due to a crew issue, Delta decided to rebook mom and dad with our fifteen month old baby on two separate middle seats for a fifteen hour flight. I guess Delta is very family friendly :(

I am wondering if anyone have suggestions to speed up scipy.optimize.minimize in #Python? My demand estimation is taking too long (given the simplicity of it and I am giving it the exact analytical gradient, I am hoping for better.) Any thoughts?

We (Sophie Calder-Wang, Chiara Farronato, and I) just published a short piece about regulating short-term rentals, which also summarizes our research on the topic. TLDR; bans are bad. Read it here: hbr.org/2024/02/what-d…