This paper explores the extent to which the gender wage gap is anticipated by workers' expectations. Data collected … among second year students of Bocconi University convey information about their wage expectations. Detailed controls allow a … the gender gap implied by students' expectations one year after graduation is consistent with the gender gap implied by …

conclusions about the socio-economic factors that determine expectations. …

theories have assumed that the U-shape is caused by unmet expectations that are felt painfully in midlife but beneficially … abandoned and experienced with less regret during old age. In a unique panel of 132,609 life satisfaction expectations matched … support theories that unmet expectations drive the age U-shape in wellbeing. …

cultural identity and financial expectations and by large unrelated to economic background variables like income inequality. We … find evidence that negative financial expectations are positively related to Euroskepticism in Western European countries …

changing expectations about the evolution of the economic conditions in various countries. This paper addresses the first … expectations and current economic conditions at origin are significant determinants of migration, diversion effects account for 78 …

the differential educational expectations mothers have for their daughters and sons, and consequently their children …

This paper argues that expectations are an important element that needs to be included into the analysis of the effects …