While a growing literature shows that women, relative to men, prefer greater investment in children, it is unclear whether empowering women produces better economic outcomes. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation US suffrage laws, we show exposure during childhood led large increases educational attainment for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, especially Blacks and Southern Whites. We...

We implement a lab-in-the-field experiment with 334 Turkish loan officers to document gender discrimination in small business lending and unpack mechanisms. Officers review multiple real-life applications which we randomize applicant gender. While unconditional approval rates are the same, 26 percent more likely require guarantor when present same application as coming from female instead of ma...

À partir de données longitudinales sur la population indienne, nous estimons façon dont l’accroissement des discriminations envers les femmes affecte leur santé nutritionnelle. Tandis que certaines formes en Inde se sont détériorées période étudiée, observons systématiquement effets non linéaires ces changements l’état...

ABSTRACT We investigate the role of gender on aggressiveness sell-side analysts' questions during earnings conference calls. Our tests reveal that verbal is significantly associated with both analyst asking question and CEO fielding question. First, we find male analysts are more verbally aggressive than female analysts. Specifically, direct likely to be followed further questions, have a prefa...

We show that a calibrated life cycle two-earner household model with endogenous labor supply can rationalize the extent of consumption insurance against shocks to male and female wages, as estimated empirically by Blundell, Pistaferri, Saporta-Eksten (2016) in US data. In model, 35 percent 18 permanent wage pass through consumption, compared empirical estimates 32 19 percent. Most is provided p...

A diverse board has been seen as an important factor contributing to the success andsustainability of a company. Therefore, policies enhance diversity boards havebeen implemented in many countries around globe. However, previous findings on theimpact female leaders firm performance still remain inconclusive. Using dataset 20Vietnamese commercial banks over period from 2013 2019, this paper exam...

This article explores employee voice within organizations, in the context of often-complex inclusion sexual and gender minority (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans intersex (LGBTI)) employees. study utilized a qualitative case approach to gather insights from diversity experts organizational documents three large Australian organizations representing private, not-for-profit public sectors. research ...