on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board–director matched panel data for Norway and Germany …, when a Norwegian board gender quota came into effect. We present two novel results that challenge previous thinking about … the effects of board gender quotas on women directors. First, we find a positive impact of employee representation before …

Does the composition of governance affect firm outcomes? We exploit the timings and thresholds of a gender quota in … novel design and data on boards, we find that firms forced to comply with the 2011 gender quota in France increased their … updating knowledge. We find that the law is associated with the diversification of boards in terms of gender but also of …

ceiling were undermined in nations with severe gender inequality …Adding to the corruption-gender nexus, this paper contributes across several dimensions: (a) measurement of corruption … by studying whether female managers and female owners of firms perceived corruption differently; (b) using survey …

This paper examines how managers at the top of a public institution, central bank executives, allocate their working …

We examine gender gaps in career dynamics in the legal sector using rich panel data from one of the largest global law … sample includes countries at different stages of development. We document the cross-country variation in gender gaps and how … these gaps have changed over time. We show that while there is gender parity at the entry level in most countries by the end …