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Politics and Gender in the Executive Suite

Alma Cohen, Moshe Hazan, David Weiss

NBER Working Paper No. 28893
Issued in June 2021
NBER Program(s):Corporate Finance, Law and Economics, Political Economy

Are the political preferences of CEOs associated with the representation and compensation of women in the executive suite? We find that Democratic CEOs (those who contribute more to Democratic candidates) are associated with higher 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 Democratic CEOs associated with a significant reduction (or even disappearance) of the gender gap in the level and performance-sensitivity of executive pay.

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Document Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3386/w28893

  
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