The Eco-Gender Gap in Boardrooms

The authors are grateful for helpful comments from Department Editor Caroline Flammer, an anonymous Associate Editor, three anonymous reviewers, Tim Adam, Pat Akey, Najah Attig, Utpal Bhattacharya, Bo Bian, Alice Bonaime, Yingmei Cheng, Darwin Choi, Alex Corhay, Waverly Ding, Adam Exstein, Joseph Fan, Yuan Gao, David Goldreich, Bing Han, Rob Heinkel, Camille Herbert, Yeejin Jang, Jun-koo Kang, Simi Kedia, Chris Lamoureux, Hao Liang, Stefano Lovo, Beatriz Mariano, Glades McKenzie, Sergey Mityakov, Suman Neupane-Joshi, Darius Palia, Loriana Pelizzon, Xiao Ren, Daniel Skarlicki, Kelvin Tan, Jing Xu, Ting Xu, Chelsea Yang, Liyan Yang, Irene Yi, Alminas Zaldokas, Shan Zhao, and Yuxiang Zheng, seminar participants at Central University of Finance and Economics, the Columbia Women’s Applied Micro Seminar, Florida State University, Goethe University, Halle Institute for Economic Research, Humboldt University, OECD, Rutgers University, University of Arizona, University of Macau, University of Queensland, University of Toronto, University of Utah, and conference participants at the NTHU Symposium on Sustainable Finance and Economics, HEC-HKUST Sustainable Finance Seminar, PRI Academic Seminar Series, Montalbano Centre for Responsible Leadership Development Research Conference, U.K. Women in Finance Conference, the Canadian Sustainable Finance Network (CSFN) Conference, and the China International Conference in Finance. This paper was the recipient of the China International Conference in Finance Best Paper Award. The authors thank Ran Duchin, Janet Gao, Davidson Heath, Daniele Macciocchi, Roni Michaely, Matt Ringgenberg, and Qiping Xu for sharing data with them. The authors thank McKenna Carpenter, Jianqiang Chen, Fengfei Li, Gen Li, Jiayi Liu, Daniel Mack, Aniket Singh, Huayi Tang, and Chi-Yang Tsou for excellent research support and Derek Hoff for copy editing. All errors are our own.