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Ownership or Performance: What Determines Board of Directors' Turnover in Italy?
Brunello, Giorgio; Graziano, Clara; Parigi, Bruno Maria - 2000
This paper studies the turnover of board of directors members in a sample of 72 companies listed on the Milan Stock Exchange during the period 1988-1996. We investigate whether board members change more frequently when company performance is poor, as the literature suggests, and whether and how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276137
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Do trustees and administrators matter? Diversifying the faculty across gender lines
Ehrenberg, Ronald G.; Jakubson, George H.; Martin, … - 2009
Our paper focuses on the role that the gender composition of the leaders of American colleges and universities … institutions diversify their faculty across gender lines. We use institutional level panel data that we have collected for a large … administrators play a larger role in faculty hiring decisions. A critical share of female trustees must be reached before the gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269546
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Ownership or Performance: What Determines Board of Directors' Turnover in Italy?
Brunello, Giorgio; Graziano, Clara; Parigi, Bruno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
This paper studies the turnover of board of directors members in a sample of 72 companies listed on the Milan Stock Exchange during the period 1988-1996. We investigate whether board members change more frequently when company performance is poor, as the literature suggests, and whether and how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566811
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Social networks in the boardroom
Kramarz, Francis; Thesmar, David - 2006
This paper provides empirical evidence consistent with the facts that (1) social networks may strongly affect board composition and (2) social networks may be detrimental to corporate governance. Our empirical investigation relies on a unique dataset on executives and outside directors of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267612
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The role of educational choice in occupational gender segregation: evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
Sookram, Sandra; Strobl, Eric - 2008
period in which educational policies intent on equating gender opportunities in education were implemented. To this end we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268744
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Egalitarian religion and economics
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010
The role of women in the ritual of many religions changed dramatically at the end of the 20th century, to the point where full participation by women was the norm by 2000 rather than the rarity that it had been 30 years earlier. This paper considers some aspects of the economic context that help...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272758
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Maternal Mortality and Women's Political Participation
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Gomes, Joseph; … - 2018
of quotas for women in parliament results in a 9 to 12% decline in maternal mortality. In terms of mechanisms, it also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873594
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Does female empowerment promote economic development?
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle - 2011
Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to their husbands) benefits children. Does this observation imply that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? We develop a series of noncooperative family bargaining models to understand what kind of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278429
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Women's liberation: what's in it for men?
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle - 2008
The nineteenth century witnessed dramatic improvements in the legal rights of married women. Given that these changes took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a voluntary renouncement of power by men. In this paper, we investigate men's incentives for sharing power...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268737
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Women and power: Unwilling, ineffective, or held back?
Casas-Arce, Pablo; Saiz, Albert - 2011
We develop a model that nests previous explanations for women under-representation in positions of power. Focusing on democratic electoral dynamics, our framework delineates the three types of mechanisms that may be at play: consumer demand, candidate supply, and internal party dynamics beyond...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286013