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 …

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

ethnicity and gender increases the probability of forming teams by 25%. Homophily in education and past working experience …

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

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 …

Our paper focuses on the role that the gender composition of the leaders of American colleges and universities … institutions diversify their faculty across gender lines. Our analyses make use of institutional level panel data that we have … role in faculty hiring decisions. A critical share of female trustees must be reached before the gender composition of the …

. 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 significantly trade more than those of the opposite gender … CEOs are male, such same-gender bias reduces the trading opportunities for females relative to male CEOs. Regarding …

, 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 …