Executive personality and the gender pay gap

Karel Hrazdil and Jiri Novak

Finance Research Letters, 2023, vol. 53, issue C

Abstract: Utilizing a large sample of U.S. chief financial officers (CFOs), we show that both their personality and gender are significant determinants of their remuneration. Controlling for the ‘Big Five’ personality traits does not eliminate the differential in compensation between male and female CFOs.

Keywords: CFO personality; Big five; Executive compensation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C18 J3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2023.103672

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