We examine gender differences in career progression and promotions in central banking, a stereotypical male … 2010 when the ECB issued a public statement supporting diversity and took several measures to support gender balance …. Following this change, the promotion gap disappears. The gender promotion gap prior to this policy change is partly driven by …

This paper studies the causal effect of gender bias on access to bank credit. We extract an exogenous measure of gender … data on 6,000 small business firms from 17 countries and find that in countries with higher gender bias, female-owned firms … countries in our sample. Overall, the evidence suggests that in high-gender bias countries, female entrepreneurs are more likely …

United States to study the narrowing of the gender gap in local labor markets. We find that deregulation reduced the gender …

. We find that composition effects derived from changes in age, gender or education of the labour force, largely exogenous …

and find that banks with more gender-diverse boards provide less credit to browner companies. This evidence is robust when …

States and the euro area. To sharpen our estimation, we include in the information set macro data and survey data on …