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In 2017, "The Big Three" institutional investors launched campaigns to increase gender diversity on corporate boards …
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responses to form our DEI measure. This variable has low correlation with gender and ethnic diversity in the boardroom, in …
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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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stronger if the observing and penalized directors share the same professional background or gender and if the observing …
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We develop a dynamic model of board decision-making. We show that a board could retain a policy all directors agree is worse than an available alternative. Thus, directors may retain a CEO they agree is bad--a deadlocked board leads to an entrenched CEO. We explore how to compose boards and...
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Narrative records in US newspapers reveal that about 70 percent of Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) members who served during the last 55 years are perceived to have had persistent policy preferences over time, as either inflation-fighting hawks or growth-promoting doves. The rest are...
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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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, 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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partnership with a Spanish-speaking online platform for technology positions, ads randomly selected to use gender-neutral language … similar numbers otherwise. In a separate survey experiment, gender-neutral language in ads increases interest and beliefs …
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