investment decisions. Male CEOs allocate more investment capital to male than female division managers. This gender gap is driven … the mother. The gender gap also increases for CEOs who attended all-male high schools and grew up in neighborhoods with … greater gender inequality. The effect of gender on capital budgeting introduces frictions and erodes investment efficiency …

This paper examines the CEO compensation gap between gender and the female CEOs’ risk preference for incentive …-averse tendency. Meanwhile, the literature suggests no significant difference in the CEO compensation gap between gender. Recently …. This study divided the sample into several periods to examine the significance level of CEO pay between gender. When …

2016, there was an average gender pay gap of 30 percent in gross hourly earnings. If gender-specific differences in … experience explains the gender pay gap to almost a quarter according to the present study based on data from the Socio …-Economic Panel (Sozio-ökonomisches Panel, SOEP). In order to reduce the gender pay gap, measures are needed to counteract the large …

Using data on Executive Compensation from Standard and Poor's ExecuComp, this paper explores the gender gap in top … narrowing of the uncorrected gender pay gap from the mid-1990s. Women top executives earn between 8% to 25% less than male … executives after controlling for differences in company size, occupational title, and industry. The magnitude of the gender pay …

studies the association between gender and network connections. First, female CEOs are less likely to be “Influential” (that …

The increasing number of women chief executives motivates considerable interest in examining possible gender … than male CEOs, which runs counter to common wisdom that the gender pay gap in the labor market favors men over women. With … gender differences in CEO compensation by extending the analyses further in time, using a larger sample of firms and more …

firms with more female directors, suggesting that board gender quotas may not increase female management representation …

One argument for increasing female representation in management is the anticipation that female managers will be … female productivity. We explore this issue by analyzing the association between female wages and the gender of their … immediate managers using Swedish matched employee-employer data. Contrary to the expected positive association, we find that …

This paper analyses the gender gap in compensation for CEOs, Vice-Directors, and potential top executives in the 2000 … the period, the overall gender gap in compensation for top executives and potential top executives decreased from 35 … percent to 31 percent. However, contrary to many other studies, we do not find that the gender gap for Danish top executives …