Diversity and Performance
研究了美国企业实施同性伴侣福利政策后的绩效，发现持有这些企业的投资组合年化超额收益约10%，超过95%的专业共同基金，且运营绩效显著改善。
This study measures the performance of U.S. firms initiating same-sex domestic partnership benefit (SSDPB) policies. The results show that holding these firms upon their SSDPB initiation in a calendar portfolio earns a four-factor annualized excess return (alpha) of approximately 10% over the 1995–2008 sample period, beating 95% of all professional mutual funds in the United States. This finding is robust to several tests of reverse causality. SSDPB adopters also show significant improvement in operating performance relative to nonadopters. This paper was accepted by Brad Barber, finance.