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Co-Director, Women and Public Policy Program
Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government

Abstract

Corporations, not-for-profit groups and governments spend billions of dollars every year on diversity training—without knowing whether the programs work. A review of almost 1,000 studies on interventions aimed at reducing prejudice found that most programs weren’t tested. For the few that were, including media campaigns and corporate-diversity training, the effects, wrote Elizabeth Levy Paluck of Princeton and Donald P. Green of Yale in the Annual Review of Psychology (2009), “remain unknown.”

Citation

Bohnet, Iris. "Real Fixes for Workplace Bias." Wall Street Journal, March 11, 2016.