Board of Director Gender and Corporate Tax Aggressiveness: An Empirical Analysis

This study examines the impact of board of director gender diversity on corporate tax aggressiveness. Based on a sample of 418 U.S. firms covering the 2006–2009 period (1672 firm-year observations), our ordinary least squares regression results show a negative and statistically significant associati...

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Main Author: Lanis, Roman (Author)
Contributors: Richardson, Grant ; Taylor, Grantley
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2017
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2017, Volume: 144, Issue: 3, Pages: 577-596
Further subjects:B Corporate governance
B Tax aggressiveness
B Board of director diversity
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Summary:This study examines the impact of board of director gender diversity on corporate tax aggressiveness. Based on a sample of 418 U.S. firms covering the 2006–2009 period (1672 firm-year observations), our ordinary least squares regression results show a negative and statistically significant association between female representation on the board and tax aggressiveness after controlling for endogeneity. Our results are consistent across several measures of tax aggressiveness and additional robustness checks.
ISSN:1573-0697
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10551-015-2815-x