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 …

director appointments are gender specific and suggest that demand-side factors such as explicit and implicit norms drive women …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 …