The Gender Promotion Gap: Evidence from Central Banking

We are grateful to Rema Hanna (the Editor), three anonymous referees, Stephanie Aaronson, Stephania Albanesi, Olympia Bover, Francesca Cornelli, Raquel Fernandez, Victoria Ivashina, Astrid Kunze, Alberto Martin, David Matsa, Javier Perez, Paola Sapienza, Antoinette Schoar, and Margarita Tsoutsoura for useful comments, as well as seminar and conference participants at the Banco de España, Bank of England, BBVA, European Central Bank, New York Federal Reserve, 2018 Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía–Spanish Economic Association, 2019 Society of Labor Economists annual meeting, Stockholm University, and University of Bonn. We thank Marco Felici and Fabian Nemeczek for excellent research assistance. Special thanks go to the Directorate-General Human Resources of the ECB, in particular to Eva Murciano, Dennis Beermann, and Aljaž Jelenko for providing us with the data. The views expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the ECB, the Banco de España, or the Eurosystem.

A supplemental appendix is available online at https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00988.