This paper summarizes research on gender differences in economic settings. I discuss gender differences in attitudes … toward competition, altruism and the closely related issue of cooperation, and risk preferences. While gender differences in …. Surprisingly, the results are also quite mixed when concerning gender differences in risk attitudes. I discuss the external …

With an overall lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the innovation sector documented in Gompers and Wang (2017), we … answer this question using a unique dataset of the gender of venture capital partners' children. First, we find strong …. Second, using an instrumental variable set-up, we also show that improved gender diversity, induced by parenting more …

, we constructed a unique data set of family trees and business groups for nearly 100 of the largest business families in … Thailand. We find a strong positive association between family size and family involvement in the ownership and control of the … family business. The sons of the founders play a central role in both ownership and board membership, especially when the …

positive gender spillovers across ranks (flowing from higher-ranking to lower-ranking women) but negative spillovers within …This paper studies gender spillovers in career advancement using 11 years of employer-employee matched data on the …. We first find that women have significantly lower promotion rates than men across all ranks of the corporate hierarchy …

Women remain disadvantaged in access to management positions around the world. We conduct a field experiment with 24 … large garment factories in Bangladesh to test for inefficient representation of women among line supervisors. We identify … factories at baseline. This suggests that factories previously promoted fewer women than would have been optimal. Additional …

In this paper, we document the historically low rate of hiring of women in the venture capital sector. We find that the … high-profile Ellen Pao v. Kleiner Perkins gender discrimination trial had dramatic treatment effects. In difference …

Are the political preferences of CEOs associated with the representation and compensation of women in the executive … representation of women in the executive suite. To explore causality, we use an event study approach and show that replacing a … Republican with a Democratic CEO is associated with 20%-60% in more women in the executive suite. Finally, we show that …