The Allocation of Talent and U.S. Economic Growth (2019) - [Sci-hub.ru](https://sci-hub.ru/10.3982/ECTA11427) - DOI: - A massive spike in GDP and productivity can be explained by an improved allocation of talent once women and black men were able to enter the job market and be placed in jobs they actually deserved to have # (From [T3 prompt](https://t3.chat/share/84i7xr1xvj) using GPT 5.4) Best Practices or Best Guesses? Assessing the Efficacy of Corporate Affirmative Action and Diversity Policices (2006) - [Sci-hub.ru](https://sci-hub.ru/10.1177/000312240607100404) - **DOI**: 10.1177/000312240607100404 - **T3 main finding**: structures that establish responsibility for diversity outcomes are more effective than isolated training programs - [ ] Read Cultural Diversity at Work: The Effects of Diversity Perspectives on Work Group Processes and Outcomes (2001) - [Sci-hub.ru](https://sci-hub.ru/10.2307/2667087) - **DOI**: 10.2307/2667087 - **T3**: Shows that "integration-and-learning" approaches tend to produce better group functioning than superficial diversity approaches - [ ] Read The impact of affirmative action on employment (1984) - [National Burea of Economic Research](https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w1310/w1310.pdf) - ~~DOI:~~ - **T3**: Classic economics paper; useful if you want older empirical evidence on affirmative action effects in employment - [ ] Read System Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers (2022) - [National Burea of Economic Research](https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29053/w29053.pdf) - **T3**: Finds substantial evidence of employer-level discrimination; if discrimination distorts hiring, then interventions that reduce it can improve allocative and labor market matching - [ ] Read Structural sexism and the misallocation of talent (2022) - [PDF link](https://navaashraf.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/abmq_misallocation.pdf) - **T3**: Very important for macroeconomic interpretation; barriers to inclusion can misallocate talent at scale, reducing productivity and innovation economy-wide - [ ] Read Harnessing demographic differences in organizations: What moderates the effects of workplace diversity? (2015) - [Wiley](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/job.2040) - **T3**: diversity does not automatically improve performance; effects depend on management, inclusion climate, task type, and organizational context - [ ] Read Inclusive workplaces: A review and model. Human Resource Management Review (2018) - [ScienceDirect](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1053482217300529?via%3Dihub) - **T3**: Strong review of inclusion; inclusion often predicts retention, committment, engagement, and better team functioning more directly than raw diversity metrics - [ ] Read