value and operations, under minimal identification assumptions. We consider sharp increases in the share of women on boards … more women on corporate boards has large positive effects on Tobin´s Q and buy-and-hold returns. This result is in stark … considered firms with different pre-quota shares of women to be good counterfactuals to each other. In our data, we see that such …

Increasing the participation of women in top-level corporate boards is high on the agenda of policymakers. Yet, we know … little about director appointment dynamics and the drivers and impediments of women appointments. This study builds on … dynamics impact the representation of women on corporate boards. We study boards of listed firms in Europe between 2002 and …

Research has consistently shown that women's involvement in household decision making positively affects household … outcomes such as nutrition and education of children. Is financial literacy a determinant for women to participate in intra …-household decision making? Using data on savings groups in Rwanda, we examine this relationship and show that women with higher financial …

for politicians. We exploit variation in sex ratios - the number of men divided by the number of women in a region … - across Germany induced by WWII. In the 1990 elections, women were more likely to run for office in constituencies that had … election. These results suggest that while women were more likely to run for a seat in parliament in constituencies with lower …