The Gender Factor in Monetary Policy: A Database for an Event-Based Study

In the manuscript ‘The Gender Factor in Monetary Policy: An Event-Study Design’ we evaluate the gender factor in monetary policy. For this purpose, we considered the start of a new presidential term at a central bank as an event after which to assess possible changes in monetary policy and gender differences in these changes. To enable this type of analysis, we created a database with information on the start of the term of office of all central bankers—male or female—who served during the period 1980-2018. The file FGP_CBgender_appendix_data.dta contains this information for all central bankers of the central banks listed on the Bank for Institutional Settlements website. The data are organised by event (one row for each event). The file allows the tables in the article's appendix to be replicated using the commands in the FGP_CBgender_appendix_run.do file. The FGP_CBgender_paper_data.dta and FGP_CBgender_paper_run.do files provide the dataset and commands to replicate everything included in the body of the manuscript—figures and estimation results contained in the tables. The dataset only includes events that entered the estimation process, according to the selection procedure described in the manuscript (Section 3.2) and the exclusion of countries with missing data.