讲座题目：Managers and the Cultural Transmission of Gender Norms
主讲人：Kieu-Trang Nguyen（Northwestern University）
讲座时间：2024年11月20日 周三 10:30-12:00
讲座地点：北京大学国家发展研究院承泽园校区245教室
组织者：
(国家发展研究院) 李力行、席天扬、徐化愚、于航、王轩、易君健、黄清扬
(经济学院) 刘冲、吴群峰、曹光宇、年永威
(光华管理学院）张晓波、仇心诚
摘要：This paper examines the influence of managers’ gender norms on gender disparities in labor market outcomes. Using data from a multinational operating in over 100 countries, we exploit cross-country manager rotations that are orthogonal to workers to estimate the impact of male managers’ gender attitudes on the work outcomes of male and female workers within the same team. We find that managers from countries with 1 s.d. more progressive gender attitudes narrow the gender pay gap by 3.8 percent, primarily by promoting women at higher rates. The effects last beyond the manager’s rotation and are three times larger when the manager is assigned to countries with conservative gender attitudes. Moreover, workers in the destination office change their own attitudes, as evidenced by those workers in turn being more gender-equal with their subordinates. Our evidence points to individual managers as critical in shaping corporate culture.
主讲人简介：Kieu-Trang Nguyen is an Assistant Professor at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne. Before joining Northwestern University and the University of Melbourne, she received her PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research focuses on innovation, organizations, and culture.