With an overall lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the innovation sector documented in Gompers and Wang (2017), we …. Second, using an instrumental variable set-up, we also show that improved gender diversity, induced by parenting more … ask the natural next question: Does increased diversity lead to better firm performances? In this paper, we attempt to …

In late 2003, Norway passed a law mandating 40 percent representation of each gender on the board of public limited … corporate sector and decrease the gender disparity in earnings within that sector. We document that the women appointed to these … boards post-reform were observably more qualified than their female predecessors along many dimensions, and that the gender …

entrenched CEO. We explore how to compose boards and appoint directors to mitigate deadlock. We find that board diversity and …