Female leadership and firm performance

Arlette Beltran

doi:10.18267/j.pep.695

Female leadership and firm performance

Arlette Beltran

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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.

Idioma original	Inglés
Páginas (desde-hasta)	363-377
Número de páginas	15
Publicación	Prague Economic Papers
Volumen	28
N.º	3
DOI	https://doi.org/10.18267/j.pep.695
Estado	Publicada - jun. 2019

Nota bibliográfica

Funding Information:
This document is derived from the first chapter of my Doctoral Thesis in Economics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). I am very thankful for detailed comments, suggestions, and support from Alberto Chong at Georgia State University. I am also very appreciative of comments submitted by Janina Leon, Gabriel Rodríguez, Juan Francisco Castro, Pablo Lavado, and Lucciano Villacorta.

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© 2019, University of Economics - Prague. All rights reserved.

ODS de las Naciones Unidas

Este resultado contribuye a los siguientes Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible

ODS 5: Igualdad de género
ODS 8: Trabajo decente y crecimiento económico
ODS 10: Reducción de las desigualdades
ODS 17: Alianzas para lograr los objetivos

Palabras clave

Cross-country data
Firm performance
Gender
Statistical discrimination

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Desempeño y productividad de la firma: ¿Cuánto aportan las mujeres que la dirigen?
Beltrán Barco, A. C. L., 2016, Lima: Universidad del Pacífico, Centro de Investigación, 34 p. (Documento de discusión ; n.º 1611).
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