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In 2017, "The Big Three" institutional investors launched campaigns to increase gender diversity on corporate boards …
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We study shareholder support for corporate board nominees in the context of the California gender quota, which was …
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In late 2003, Norway passed a law mandating 40 percent representation of each gender on the board of public limited … corporate sector and decrease the gender disparity in earnings within that sector. We document that the women appointed to these … boards post-reform were observably more qualified than their female predecessors along many dimensions, and that the gender …
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, but also on one's rank within gender. Both beliefs on rank and attitudes towards competition change when moving to a more … gender-specific competition. The changes in competitive entry have important implications when assessing the costs of …
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mechanism for promoting diversity. We show that representation, on its own, is not sufficient for selecting gender diversity: a …
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Venture capital (VC) backed firms face neither the governance requirements nor a major separation of ownership and control of their public peers. These differences suggest that independent directors could play a unique role on private firm boards. This paper explores the dynamics of VC-backed...
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. Such frictions can help explain part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship, and also have implications for how to design …
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We study the relation between gender and job performance among brokerage firm equity analysts. Women's representation …
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Democratic CEOs associated with a significant reduction (or even disappearance) of the gender gap in the level and performance …
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Standard models of investment predict that credit-constrained firms should grow rapidly when given additional capital, and that how this capital is provided should not affect decisions to invest in the business or consume the capital. We randomly gave cash and in-kind grants to male- and...
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