"Recent research documents that while men are eager to compete, women often shy away from competitive environments. A … consequence is that few women enter and win competitions. Using experimental methods we examine how affirmative action affects … competitive entry. We find that when women are guaranteed equal representation among winners, more women and fewer men enter …

Analysis of a global survey of 21,980 firms from 91 countries suggests that the presence of women in corporate … fact that women increase a firm's skill diversity. Women's presence in corporate leadership is positively correlated with … quotas on firm performance, but they suggest that the payoffs of policies that facilitate women rising through the corporate …

This paper investigates if there is state dependence in the gender composition of managers in German establishments. We … analyze whether the number of hired female managers (respectively the share of females within hired managers) depends on the … female manager hires in present leads to more female hired managers in the future. Similarly, the number of male manager …