Diversity Bibliography Compiled by Julie Gorte of Paxworld

  1. Fredrik Heyman, Helena Svaleryd and Jonas Vlachos, “Competition, Takeovers and Gender Discrimination,” Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper Series No. 6879, June 2008.
  1. “Friday’s Academy: Gender and Macroeconomics,” Poverty and Growth Blog, World Bank, November 1, 2008. Posted at
  1. Renee B. Adams and Daniel Ferreira, “Diversity and Incentives in Teams: Evidence from Corporate Boards,” July 21, 2002.
  1. Renee B. Adams and Daniel Ferriera, “Gender Diversity in the Boardroom,” August 2004.
  1. R.M. Kanter, Men and Women of the Corporation, (New York: Basic Books, 1997).
  1. Renee B. Adams and Daniel Ferriera, “Women in the Boardroom and Their Impact on Governance and Performance,” 94 Journal of Financial Economics, 2009.
  1. Deborah L. Rhode and Amanda K. Packel, “Diversity on Corporate Boards: How Much of a Difference Does Difference Make?” Stanford University Rock Center for Corporate Governance, September 2010.
  1. Lynne L. Dallas, “The New Managerialism and Diversity on Corporate Boards of Directors,” University of San Diego School of Law, Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper 38, Spring 2002.
  1. David A. Carter, Betty J. Simkins, and W. Gary Simpson, “Corporate Governance, Board Diversity, and Firm Value,” College of Business Administration, Oklahoma State University, March 2002.
  1. Gail Robinson and Kathleen Dechant, “Building a Business Case for Diversity,” Academy of Management Journal (43:3), 1997.
  1. David A. Carter Frank D’Souza, Betty J. Simkins, and W. Gary Simpson, “The Diversity of Corporate Board Committees and Firm Financial Performance,” Department of Finance, Oklahoma State University, March 15, 2007.
  1. Niclas L. Erhardt, James D. Werbel and Charles B. Shrader, “Board of Director Diversity and Firm Financial Performance,” Corporate Governance (11:2), April 2003.
  1. Catalyst, “The Bottom Line: Corporate Performance and Women’s Representation on Boards,” 2007.
  1. Lisa M. Fairfax, “The Bottom Line on Board Diversity: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Business Rationales for Diversity on Corporate Boards,” University of Maryland School of Law, Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2005-58.
  1. Joan MacLeod Heminway, “Sex, Trust, and Corporate Boards,” Hastings Women’s Law Journal, April 15, 2007.
  1. Kenneth R. Ahern and Amy K. Dittman, “The Changing of the Boards: The Value Effect of a Massive Exogenous Shock,” SSRN, May 2010.
  1. Catalyst, “The Bottom Line: Connecting Corporate Performance and Gender Diversity,” 2004.
  1. Vesela Veleva, “Gender Diversity and Financial Performance,” Citizens Advisers, 2005.
  1. Cristian L. Dezsö and David Gaddis Ross, “‘Girl Power:’ Female participation in Top Management and Firm Performance,” SSRN, August 2008.
  1. Gopal V. Krishnan and Linda M. Parsons, “Getting to the Bottom Line: An Exploration of Gender and Earnings Quality,” George Mason University, no date.
  1. R.D. Ford and W.D. Richardson, “Ethical Decision Making: A Review of the Empirical Literature,” Journal of Business Ethics (13:3), March 1994. Cited in Krishnan and Parsons, op. cit.
  1. Bill Francis, Iftekhar Hasan, Jong Chool Park and Qiang Wu, “Gender Differences in Financial Reporting Decision-Making: Evidence from Accounting Conservatism,” n.d. Posted at
  1. Réal Labelle, Rin Makni Gargouri and Claude Francoeur, “Ethics, Diversity Management and Financial Reporting Quality,” September 2009. Posted at
  1. Nina Smith, Valdemar Smith, and Mette Verner, “Do Women in Top Management Affect Firm Performance? A Panel Study of 2500 Danish Firms,” IZA Discussion Paper No. 1708, August 2005.
  1. Roy D. Adler, “Women in the Executive Suite Correlate to High Profits,” European Project on Equal Pay, no date.
  1. Pr. Michel Ferrary, “When Gender Diversity Protects Stock Prices From the Crash,” Ceram Business School, 2009.
  1. Claude Francoeur, Réal Labelle, and Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné, “Gender Diversity in Corporate Governance and Top Management,” Journal of Business Ethics, 2008.
  1. Peggy M. Lee and Erika Hayes James, “She’-E-Os: Gender Effects and Investor Reactions to the Announcements of Top Executive Appointments,” Strategic Management Journal, March 2007.
  1. Justin Wolfers, “Diagnosing Discrimination: Stock Returns and CEO Gender,” Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, January 2006.
  1. Robert W. Fairlie and Alicia M. Robb, “Gender Differences in Business Performance: Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey,” IZA Discussion Paper No. 3718, September 2008.
  1. Shwetlana Sabarwal and Katherine Terrell, “Does Gender Matter for Firm Performance? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia,” IZA Discussion Paper No. 3758, October 2008.
  1. Fredrik Heyman, Helena Svaleryd and Jonas Vlachos, “Competition, Takeovers and Gender Discrimination,” Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper No. 6879, June 2008.
  1. Gary Becker, The Economics of Discrimination, (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1957 and 1971).
  1. Maurice Levi, Kai Li and Feng Zhang, “Mergers and Acquisitions: The Role of Gender,” April 2008, posted at
  1. Theresa M. Welbourne, Cynthia S. Cycyota and Claudia J. Ferrante, “Wall Street Reaction to Women in IPOs: An Examination of Gender Diversity in Top Management Teams,” Group & Organization Management, Volume 32 Number 5, October 2007, pp. 524-547.
  1. Winnie Qian Peng and K.C. John Wei, “Women Executives and Corporate Investment: Evidence from the S&P 500,” November 18, 2006, posted at 69.175.2.130/.../Women_Executives_and_Corporate_Investment.pdf
  1. Nick Wilson and Ali Altanlar, “Director Characteristics, Gender Balance and Insolvency Risk: An Empirical Study,” Credit Management Research Centre, Leeds University Business School, October 2009.
  1. Thomas Kochan, Katerina Bezrukova, Robin Ely, Susan Jackson, Aparna Joshi, Karen Jehn, Jonathan Leonard, David Levine, and David Thomas, “The Effects of Diversity on Business Performance: Report of the Diversity Research Network,” Human Resource Management, (42:1) Spring 2003.
  1. Anita Williams Woolley, Christopher F. Chabris, Alexander Pentland, Nada Hashmi, and Thomas W. Malone, “Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups,” Science, Sept. 30, 2010.
  1. Jordan Siegel, Lynn Pyun and B.Y. Cheon, “Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discriniation, and the Capture of Competitive Advantage by Exploiting the Social Divide,” Harvard Business School Working Paper 11-011, 2010.
  1. Judith Hellerstein, David Neumark and Kenneth R. Troske, “Market Forces and Sex Discrimination,” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 6321, December 1997.
  1. Georges Desvaux, Sandrine Devillard-Hoellinger, and Mary C. Meaney, “A Business Case for Women,” McKinsey Quarterly, September 2008.
  1. Vicki W. Kramer, Alison M Konrad, and Sumru Erkut, “Critical Mass on Corporate Boards: Why Three or More Women Enhance Governance,” Wellesley Centers for Women Special Report, Paper No. WCW11, 2006.
  1. Gail Robinson and Kathleen Dechant, “Building a Business Case for Diversity,” Academy of Management Executive (11:3), 1997.
  1. Gul, F.A., Hutchinson, M., and Lai, K. (2011). Gender diversity and properties of analysts forecast. Working paper, Monash University, Sunway, Malaysia
  1. Mijntje Lűckerath-Rovers, Women on Board and Firm Performance,” Journal of Management and Governance 17:2, 2013.
  1. David A. Matsa and Amalia R. Miller, “A Female Style in Corporate Leadership? Evidence from Quotas,” April 30, 2012, miller_a7875.pdf.
  1. Kathy Matsui, Hiromi Suzuki, Christopher Eoyang, Tsumugi Akiba and Kaxunori Tatebe, “Womenomics 3.0: The Time is Now,” Goldman Sachs, October 1, 2010.
  1. Nancy M. Carter and Harvey M. Wagner, “The Bottom Line: Corporate Performance and Women’s Representation on Boards (2004-2008),” Catalyst, March 1, 2011,
  1. Ferdinand A Gul, Bin Srinidhi and Judy Tsui, “Do Female Directors Enhance Corporate Board Monitoring? Some Evidence from Earnings Quality,” The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, September 2007,
  1. Ferdinand Gul, Marion Hutchison and Karen Lai, “Gender Diversity and Properties of Analyst Earnings Forecasts,” 2011.
  1. Mara Gaccio, Maria-Teresa Marchica and Roberto Mura, “CEO Gender, Corporate Risk-Taking, and the Efficiency of Capital Allocation,” 2012.
  1. Miriam Schwartz-Ziv, “Does the Gender of Directors Matter?” Social Science Research Network, 2013,
  1. Andre Chanavat and Katharine Ramsden, “Mining the Metrics of Board Diversity,” Thomson Reuters, June 2013.
  1. Renee B. Adams and Vanitha Regunathan, “Lehman Sisters,” December 2013,
  1. Huasheng Gao and Yaheng Lin, “Sex Discrimination and Female Top Managers: Evidence from China,” Nanyang Business School, February 2014,
  1. Larelle Chapple, Pamela Kent and James Routledge, “Board Gender Diversity and Going Concern Audit Opinions,” 2014,
  1. Sangeeta Badal and James K. Harter, “Gender Diversity, Business-Unit Engagement, and Performance,” Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, 2013.
  1. Douglas Cumming, T.Y. Leung and Oliver Rui, “Gender Diversity and Securities Fraud,” July 24, 2014,
  1. Jordan Siegel, Lynn Pyun and B.Y. Cheon, “Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination and the Capture of Competitive Advantage by Exploiting the Social Divide,” Harvard Business School Working paper 11-011, February 10, 2014.