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This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is key. The chief executive of firms with a female dominant shareholder has a significantly higher...
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This paper investigates if there is state dependence in the gender composition of managers in German establishments. We … analyze whether the number of hired female managers (respectively the share of females within hired managers) depends on the … female manager hires in present leads to more female hired managers in the future. Similarly, the number of male manager …
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chairman and share of women in the boardroom) and firm's risk attitudes measured as variability in four firm outcome variables … finding might be consistent with the theoretical assumption according to which women typically present a substantially higher …
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Female entrepreneurship has been regarded as inferior to its male equivalent in terms of performance. Literature on gender differences in entrepreneurship focus mostly on showing the differences, but not much literature discusses where the differences come from, and how to mitigate them. This...
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The permanent income hypothesis states that agents perfectly smooth consumption given a large, anticipated shock to income. Testing these implications is difficult given the endogenous nature of income and payment timing. We leverage exogenous variation in military bonus size and timing matched...
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We investigate the effect of a donation incentive tied to contributions to a public good when group members can decide on the size of the donation to be made. An up to 20 % donation of the public good was implemented either exogenously or endogenously by group members. In the Vote treatment,...
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amount (e.g. "give at least $25 and the charity receives a $25 match"). Responses are used to structurally estimate a model … incentive schemes, taking into account the goals of the charity and donor preferences. Two of these optimal incentives were …
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A popular fundraising tool is donation matching, where every dollar is matched by a third party. But field experiments …
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What determines human beings' decisions to donate money to a charity? Using a nationally representative survey of the … prosocial behaviors, such as group learning. We tested our results separately for men and women, as well as on prosocial …
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A donation may have ambiguous costs or ambiguous benefits. Behavior in a laboratory experiment suggests that individuals use this ambiguity strategically as a moral wiggle room to act less generously without feeling guilty. Such excuse-driven behavior is more pronounced when the costs of a...
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