When are women willing to lead? The effect of team gender composition and gendered tasks
In: The leadership quarterly: an international journal of political, social and behavioral science, Band 30, Heft 6, S. 101340
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In: The leadership quarterly: an international journal of political, social and behavioral science, Band 30, Heft 6, S. 101340
In: GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 17-26
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In: Environmental and resource economics, Band 86, Heft 3, S. 533-563
ISSN: 1573-1502
AbstractThe frequency of hot days in much of the world is increasing. What is the impact of high temperatures on productivity? Can technology-based adaptation mitigate such effects of climate change? We provide some answers to these questions by examining how high outdoor temperatures affect a high-technology, precision manufacturing setting. Exploiting individual-level data on the quantity and quality of work done across 35,190 worker-shifts in a leading NYSE-listed silicon wafer maker in China, we evidence a negative effect of outdoor heat on productivity. The effects are large: in our preferred linear specification, an increase in wet bulb temperature of $$10\,^{\circ }$$
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