When Harry Fired Sally: The Double Standard in Punishing Misconduct

Mark Egan, Gregor Matvos and Amit Seru

Journal of Political Economy, 2022, vol. 130, issue 5, 1184 - 1248

Abstract: We examine gender differences in misconduct punishment in the financial advisory industry. There is a “gender punishment gap”: following an incident of misconduct, female advisers are 20% more likely to lose their jobs and 30% less likely to find new jobs, relative to male advisers. The gender punishment gap is not driven by gender differences in occupation, productivity, nature of misconduct, or recidivism. The gap in hiring and firing dissipates at firms with a greater percentage of female managers and executives. We also explore the differential treatment of ethnic minority men and find similar patterns of “in-group” tolerance.

Date: 2022
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