Rising Tides Lift Which Boats? Understanding Economic and Family Inequalities Across Generations

In assessing the extent to which individuals escape childhood disadvantages (or maintain childhood advantages), researchers often study relative mobility across generations (individuals’ movements up or down the income rankings from their parents’ positions). Yet many people experience absolute income gains across generations without upward relative mobility; they simply float with the rising tide. I will explore the connections...

Gender Inequality in Pitching an Idea? How Intuitive and Analytical Thinking Styles Influence Willingness to Invest

For those starting a venture based on an idea, the acquisition of resources such as financing plays a key role. The literature suggests that female founders receive fewer financing sources for their ideas than their male...

The Collaboration-Association Tradeoff: How The Gender Composition Of Networks And Genres Influence Artist Creativity

While creative production is widely recognized as a collective endeavor, scholarship on gender and creativity has primarily focused on individual-level gender differences in creative ability and evaluations of creative output. In this paper, we explore how the gender composition of artists’ social worlds—the collaborators with whom they interact, and the other artists with whom they are associated through shared genre membership—influences...

Standing on the Shoulders of (Male) Giants: Gender Inequality and Science-Based Invention

This paper proposes that the gender of innovators affects the extent to which their ideas are built upon. We argue that the lower rate of recombination based on women’s ideas is not only due to women’s lower productivity in science and technology but also to the fact that their...