The gender effects of COVID: Evidence from equity analysts

• Main Authors: LI, Frank Weikai, WANG, Baolian
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
• Subjects: COVID-19; Decision heuristics; Financial analysts; Gender gap; Pandemic; Finance and Financial Management; Gender and Sexuality; Portfolio and Security Analysis; Public Health
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/7524; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/8523/viewcontent/s11142_024_09852_6_pvoa_cc_by.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We use COVID-19 and sell-side analysts as an experiment to study the effects of gender on labor productivity. We find that the forecast accuracy of female analysts declined more than that of male analysts, especially when schools were closed and among analysts who were more likely to have young chil...