Owen, Ann L.; Temesvary, Judit; Wei, Andrew - 2023
among board members can improve firm performance, but women on boards are much less connected than men. In this paper, we …’ performance? Using IV techniques to account for the endogeneity of connections, we find that (1) better connected female (but not … committees also improve performance – especially when the share of women on the board is relatively high (above the median) …