Personal website:
https://sites.google.com/view/heloise-clolery/home
Contact:
References:
- Pr. Yukio Koriyama – CREST, Ecole polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
- Pr. Guillaume Hollard – CREST, CNRS, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
Research fields:
Primary fields: Applied Microeconomics
Secondary fields: Political Economy
Presentation:
I am a Post-Doctoral Resercher at Bocconi University.
In 2024, I defended my PhD at CREST, Ecole polytechnique, under the supervision of Yukio Koriyama and Guillaume Hollard.
I visited Harvard University for the academic year 2022-2023, sponsored by Vincent Pons.
My research interest lie between applied microeconomics, political economy, and Behavioral Economics.
Job Market Paper:
The Effects of Quotas on Team Decisions: Prior Biases and Learning
Abstract: The objective of this paper is to assess the impact of affirmative action quotas on confidence and interactions in diverse teams. While quotas are widely used to enhance the representation of women and minorities, they also introduce uncertainty about the relative abilities of candidates within a team. Yet, little is known about how such uncertainty influences participants’ confidence and team dynamics. I conducted two experiments, each comprising a tournament followed by a teamwork stage. In the first experiment, the treatment is a quota based on numerical minority. In the second experiment, I introduce a gender quota. The results show that quotas increase uncertainty, which in turn reduces winners’ confidence and lowers their contributions to the teamwork in successful teams, while the opposite holds for unsuccessful participants. These effects are not driven by numerical majority or minority status. However, under a gender quota, high-performing women reduce their engagement in teamwork, while high-performing men experience a confidence boost. Finally, quotas generate gaps in confidence signals sent between minority and majority groups, and between men and women, which create potential for persistent long-term biases.