the effects of board gender quotas on women directors. First, we find a positive impact of employee representation before … on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board–director matched panel data for Norway and Germany …, when a Norwegian board gender quota came into effect. We present two novel results that challenge previous thinking about …

factors: family ownership and source of the competitive pressure. A novel aspect of our paper is that we rely on two … predictions, sensitivity is higher in competitive sectors and the difference between family and non-family CEOs disappear when … competition is tough. Family CEOs are significantly less paid than non-family CEOs and their pay is significantly related to firm …

Does electing female politicians increase women’s political representation? Using a difference-in-differences design on … the share of women in government. To address selection concerns, we apply the synthetic control method to a unique case of …. Our findings provide causal evidence that her entry led to a lasting rise in women’s political representation …

characteristic of same-age neighbors-their gender-affects a variety of high school and university outcomes. We exploit randomness in … the gender composition of local cohorts at birth from one year to the next. In a setting in which school assignment is …

One argument for increasing female representation in management is the anticipation that female managers are … position, and controlling for important sorting of employees, the negative association is found only among lower-level managers … and not among high-level managers. We discuss decision-making power as one possible explanation for this heterogeneity. …

and promotions. No reform affected fathers' pay or the gender pay gaps between mothers and their male colleagues and …

We study whether gender-based favoritism impedes women’s career progression using data from a European multinational … corporation. Leveraging manager reassignments, we show that manager gender does not affect gender differences, neither in wage … differ substantially in terms of gender norms, occupations, and gender composition, but are all subject to the same …

Adding to the corruption-gender nexus, this paper contributes across several dimensions: (a) measurement of corruption … by studying whether female managers and female owners of firms perceived corruption differently; (b) using survey … information at the firm level; and (c) employing a large sample of more than 100 countries. Results show that both female managers …

We study the effect of educational attainment on family formation using regression discontinuity designs generated by … margin does not increase the likelihood that men form families. In contrast, women admitted to further education are more … set of results using survey data. These suggest that the positive association between men’s education and family formation …

Women continue to be underrepresented in corporate leadership positions. This paper studies the role of social … connections in women's career advancement. We investigate whether access to a larger share of female peers in business school … affects the gender gap in senior managerial positions. Merging administrative data from a top-10 U.S. business school with …