Abstract
This study explores whether companies’ experience benefits when the firm’s CEO and owner are both women. It employs data from the 2009-2014 World Bank Enterprise Surveys (WBES) to measure firms’ performance through growth in sales and productivity. Potential endogeneity was corrected by using the UN Gender Development Index and the average fertility rate as they comply with the exclusion restrictions. The paper uses the Control Function method with a Probit first stage estimation and an OLS main equation. The findings suggest that a female owner strengthens the female CEO’s business skills and leads to better firm performance than when the CEO is a woman and the owner is a man.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 363-377 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Prague Economic Papers |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| State | Published - Jun 2019 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- Cross-country data
- Firm performance
- Gender
- Statistical discrimination
- gender
- cross-country data
- statistical discrimination
- firm performance
