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We study the GDPR's opt-in requirement in a model with a firm that provides a digital service and consumers who are heterogeneous in their valuations of the firm's service as well as the privacy costs incurred when sharing personal data with the firm. We show that the GDPR boosts demand for the...
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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 …
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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. …
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One argument for increasing female representation in management is the anticipation that female managers are particularly beneficial for female employees through, e.g., role modeling or mentoring. Contrary to the expected positive association, we find that female wages are negatively associated...
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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This paper examines the performance of 358 European diversified equity mutual funds controlling for gender differences …
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Leaders often have to weigh ethical against monetary consequences. Such situations may evoke psychological costs from being dishonest and dismissing higher monetary benefits for others. In a within-subjects experiment, we analyze such a dilemma. We first measure individual dishonest behavior...
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This paper investigates how direct election regimes (à la presidential democracy) affect the selection of women into political offices compared to indirect appointment (à la parliamentary). Exploiting the staggered phase-in across Italian municipalities of a reform to the local institutional...
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