Female Equity Analysts and Corporate Environmental and Social Performance

The authors are grateful for helpful comments from Will Cong (Department Editor), an anonymous Associate Editor, two anonymous referees, Ling Cen, Jing Chen, Rui Dai, David Du, Nick Gantchev, Jarrad Harford, Bianca He (discussant), Jack He (discussant), Allen Huang, Po-Hsuan Hsu, Sterling Huang, Yaling Jin (discussant), Chukwuma Kim, Frank Li, Anya Mkrtchyan (discussant), Rachel Peng, Meng Qu, Kate Suslava (discussant), Hongping Tan, Julian Vahl, Ting Xu, Aaron Yoon (discussant), Shiqi Zhang, Yuxiang Zheng, and Qifei Zhu (discussant), seminar participants at Columbia Financial Economics Colloquium, Fordham University, HEC Montreal, McGill University, Rutgers University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, University of Birmingham, Villanova University, and Western University, and conference participants at the Third Canadian Sustainable Finance Network Conference (Victoria), the Third Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility (Boston), the UF Research Conference on Machine Learning in Finance (virtual), the Conference on CSR, the Economy, and Financial Markets (Chicago), the SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific Conference (virtual), the Weinberg Center/ECGI Corporate Governance Symposium (Newark), the Sixth NTHU-UNSW Symposium on Sustainable Finance and Economics (virtual), the Seventh China Finance and Accounting Conference (Beijing), the Fourth Annual Boca-ECGI Corporate Finance and Governance Conference (Boca Raton), the China International Conference in Finance (Beijing), and the Northern Finance Association Meetings (Montreal). The authors also thank Heather Chen for outstanding research support. This paper was the recipient of the John L. Weinberg/IRRCi Best Paper Award. All errors are our own.