Diversity and Team Performance in a Kenyan Organization

We are extremely grateful to Suleiman Asman, Eleanor Wiseman, Geoffrey Onyambu and Bonnyface Mwangi for exceptional research management and assistance in the field. We benefited from helpful comments and suggestions from Anna Aevarsdottir, Evan Apfelbaum, Abhijit Banerjee, Nick Bloom, Ray Fisman, Christina Patterson, Jonathan Petkun, Otis Reid, Michael Stepner, as well as seminar audiences at Bocconi University, Ecole Polytechnique, the Econometric Society, Georgetown, IIES Stockholm, IPEG, MIT, MIT Sloan, the NBER Summer Institute, Novafrica, the Rotman School of Management, University of Capetown, and UVA Batten School. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from MIT Sloan School of Management and the Program on Innovation in Markets and Organizations at MIT Sloan. Vincent Pons reports that he is the cofounder of a company specialized in electoral strategy in Europe, eXplain (https://explain-technology.com). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.