on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board–director matched panel data for Norway and Germany … the gender quota reform on gender diversity. Second, although the Norwegian gender quota has increased the probability of …, when a Norwegian board gender quota came into effect. We present two novel results that challenge previous thinking about …

Adding to the corruption-gender nexus, this paper contributes across several dimensions: (a) measurement of corruption … ceiling were undermined in nations with severe gender inequality. …

affects the gender gap in senior managerial positions. Merging administrative data from a top-10 U.S. business school with … related to gender-specific advice, (ii) higher ambitions and self-confidence, and (iii) increasing support from male MBA peers …. These findings highlight the role of social connections in reducing the gender gap in senior management positions. …

We analyze the effect of the introduction of gender quotas in candidate lists on the quality of elected politicians. We … consider an Italian law which introduced gender quotas in local elections in 1993, and was abolished in 1995. As not all … a Difference in Differences estimation to analyze the effect of gender quotas on the quality of elected politicians. We …

This paper examines the performance of 358 European diversified equity mutual funds controlling for gender differences …

Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk … aversion among women explains a large share of the entrepreneurial gender gap. We also find an education effect contributing to …

We analyze the effect of the coach's gender on risk-taking in women sports teams using data taken from National … Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball games. We find that the coach's gender has a sizable and significant effect on …