Management and Strategy Research Seminar -Sheen S. Levine

People today are more likely than ever to work in gender-diverse teams, yet effective teamwork requires cooperation. In three experimental studies, we investigate the link between one’s gender, the gender of peers, expectations, behaviors, and performance: Do men and women cooperate differently in gender-mixed versus gender-segregated settings? Using a public goods game, we find that diverse-gender teams elicit lower contributions than all-male or all-female teams. In particular, males in divers