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 …

This paper examines gender differences among top business executives using a large executive-employer matched data set … which firm-level temporal flexibility and corporate culture can explain these gender differences. Although we find that … this sorting drives the gender pay gap. However, we do find evidence that corporate culture affects pay gaps within firms …

This paper studies the gender compensation gap among high-level executives in US corporations. We use the ExecuComp … are less likely to be CEO, Chair, or President of their company. The unexplained gender gap can be reduced to less than 5 … of a significant gender gap (once we control for measurable characteristics) implies that women and men who hold similar …

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 …

shareholders and managers in which managers have private benefits or private costs of investment. Managers overinvest when they …, in isolation, is insufficient to identify whether managers have private benefits or private costs of investment. In order … to identify whether managers have private benefits or costs, we estimate the joint relationships between incentives and …