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for women facing more restrictive social norms? We offered two days of business counseling to a random sample of customers … of India's largest women's bank. A random subsample was invited to attend with a friend. The intervention had a … were stronger among women from religious or caste groups with social norms that restrict female mobility …
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for women facing more restrictive social norms? We offered two days of business counseling to a random sample of customers … of India's largest women's bank. A random subsample was invited to attend with a friend. The intervention had a … were stronger among women from religious or caste groups with social norms that restrict female mobility …
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for women facing more restrictive social norms? We offered two days of business counseling to a random sample of customers … of India's largest women's bank. A random subsample was invited to attend with a friend. The intervention had a … were stronger among women from religious or caste groups with social norms that restrict female mobility …
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Using the top 1000 US firms from 2002 to 2015 as a tradable stock universe, we replicate and backtest five market-traded gender-diverse portfolios. We find evidence that gender-diverse firms have smaller volatility. Moreover, the gender-risk relationship is non-linear, with optimal female board...
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as means of increasing women’s participation rates in innovative entrepreneurship …
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We show that investor preferences for diversity have had a significant effect on the initial returns earned by U.S. firms going public with gender diverse boards over the past decade. There is no difference in economic fundamentals, such as profitability, between these firms and firms without...
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In patriarchal societies, sticky norms affect married women's social circles, their autonomy, and the outcomes of intra …-household bargaining. This paper uses primary data on women's social networks in Uttarakhand, India; the modal woman has only three friends … significant peer effects on only a few of the examined measures of women's autonomy. In contrast, peer effects exist on all …
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In patriarchal societies, sticky norms affect married women's social circles, their autonomy, and the outcomes of intra …-household bargaining. This paper uses primary data on women's social networks in Uttarakhand, India; the modal woman has only three friends … significant peer effects on only a few of the examined measures of women's autonomy. In contrast, peer effects exist on all …
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