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CEO Stress, Aging, and Death
Borgschulte, Mark; Guenzel, Marius; Liu, Canyao; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
managerial stress, also relative to known health risks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496103
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Venture Capital's "Me Too" Moment
Calder-Wang, Sophie; Gompers, Paul A.; Sweeney, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
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-in-differences regressions, we find that the rate of hiring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510557
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Politics and Gender in the Executive Suite
Cohen, Alma; Hazan, Moshe; Weiss, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Are the political preferences of CEOs associated with the representation and compensation of women in the executive suite? We find that Democratic CEOs (those who contribute more to Democratic candidates) are associated with higher representation of women in the executive suite. To explore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012585377
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High School Alcohol Use and Young Adult Labor Market Outcomes
Chatterji, Pinka - 2006
We estimate the relationship between 10th grade binge drinking in 1990 and labor market outcomes in 2000 among National Educational Longitudinal Survey respondents. For females, adolescent drinking and adult wages are unrelated, and negative employment effects disappear once academic achievement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466136
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The Price of Alcohol, Wife Abuse, and Husband Abuse
Markowitz, Sara - 1999
of violence towards men. However, once the individual traits are controlled for, a negative relationship between the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471895
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Household Matters : Revisiting the Returns to Capital among Female Micro-entrepreneurs
Bernhardt, Arielle - 2017
Several field experiments find positive returns to grants for male and not female micro-entrepreneurs. But, these analyses largely overlook that male and female micro-entrepreneurs often belong to the same household. Using data from randomized trials in India, Sri Lanka and Ghana, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455323
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Do Male Workers Prefer Male Leaders? An Analysis of Principals' Effects on Teacher Retention
Husain, Aliza N. - 2018
Using a 40-year panel of all public school teachers and principals in New York State, we explore how female principals affect rates of teacher turnover--an important determinant of school quality. We find that male teachers are about 12% more likely to leave their schools when they work under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480914
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Diagnosing Discrimination : Stock Returns and CEO Gender
Wolfers, Justin - 2006
, prejudice, or systematically biased beliefs about the ability of female managers. Disentangling these theories would require … data on productivity, on the preferences of those who interact with managers, and on perceptions of productivity. Financial … participants about the ability of men and women in senior management. As such, financial data hold the promise of potentially …
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CEO Gender Bias in the Formation of Firm-to-Firm Transactions
Izumi, Yutaro; Shigeoka, Hitoshi; Yagasaki, Masayuki - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
While female CEOs are under-represented, the barriers they face in the business environment remain poorly understood. This study investigates the influence of gender bias in forming CEOs' business networks. Using transaction data of 1 million Japanese firms, we find that CEOs of the same gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337848
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Violence and the U.S. Prohibition of Drugs and Alcohol
Miron, Jeffrey A. - 1999
Among the many unresolved questions regarding the determinants of violence is the role of prohibitions against drugs and alcohol. Conventional wisdom holds that consumption of these goods encourages violence and that prohibitions discourage such consumption; thus, prohibitions reduce violence....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471857