Authors: Roman Lanis Grant Richardson Grantley Taylor
Publish Date: 2015/08/30
Volume: 144, Issue: 3, Pages: 577-596
Abstract
This study examines the impact of board of director gender diversity on corporate tax aggressiveness Based on a sample of 418 US firms covering the 2006–2009 period 1672 firmyear 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
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