returns are differentially greater for men and account for a substantial proportion of the gender earnings gap. A comparison … women may also narrow the gender earnings gap. …

competitiveness and risk, this paper investigates whether these behavioral biases and preferences explain gender differences in … who are overconfident and overly competitive have significantly higher earnings expectations. Moreover, gender differences … in overconfidence and competitiveness explain about 18% of the gender gap in earnings expectations. These experimental …

involvement. Finally, stratification of the sample based on gender and marital status shows that compared to unmarried females …

This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behavior using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP …). We develop a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method for count data models which allows to isolate the part of the gender … part attributable to differences in coefficients. Our results reveal that the major part of the gender smoking differential …

growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …

This paper surveys the trends in gender gaps in education, their causes and potential policy implications. I show that … increasing returns to education and lower female effort costs of education. Widening gender gap in education combined with recent … participation. The paper discusses evidence on educational policies that both widen and reduce gender gaps in educational outcomes. …

We extend the analysis of early-emerging gender differences in academic achievement to include both (objective) test … favoring girls, and that the misalignment of grades and test scores can be linked to gender differences in non … strongest evidence of a gender gap appearing among whites. However, boys in all racial categories across all subject areas are …