In 2017, "The Big Three" institutional investors launched campaigns to increase gender diversity on corporate boards …

We study shareholder support for corporate board nominees in the context of the California gender quota, which was …

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 …

mechanism for promoting diversity. We show that representation, on its own, is not sufficient for selecting gender diversity: a …

, but also on one's rank within gender. Both beliefs on rank and attitudes towards competition change when moving to a more … gender-specific competition. The changes in competitive entry have important implications when assessing the costs of …

Democratic CEOs associated with a significant reduction (or even disappearance) of the gender gap in the level and performance …

. Such frictions can help explain part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship, and also have implications for how to design …

We study the relation between gender and job performance among brokerage firm equity analysts. Women's representation …

We investigate the effects of female executives on gender-specific wage distributions and firm performance. We find …