The gender effects of COVID-19 on equity analysts

• Main Authors: LI, Frank Weikai, WANG, Baolian
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• 主題: COVID-19; financial analysts; gender gap; decision heuristics; Finance and Financial Management
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6803; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/7802/viewcontent/SSRN_id3857376.pdf
• 機構: Singapore Management University

We use the COVID-19 pandemic as a natural experiment to study the effects of childcare and household duties on sell-side analysts. The richness of this setting allows us to compare female and male analysts while requiring them to perform the same tasks. We find that female analysts' forecast ac...