Cohen, Alma; Hazan, Moshe; Weiss, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Are the political preferences of CEOs associated with the representation and compensation of women in the executive … representation of women in the executive suite. To explore causality, we use an event study approach and show that replacing a … Republican with a Democratic CEO is associated with 20%-60% in more women in the executive suite. Finally, we show that …