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We experimentally test overconfidence in investment decisions by offering participants the possibility to substitute their own for alternative investment choices. Overall, 149 subjects participated in two experiments, one with just one risky asset, the other with two risky assets. Overconfidence...
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sufficiently low gender wage gap), Intermediate-gap couples (with an intermediate gender wage gap) and high-gap couples (with a … sufficiently high gender wage gap). Our model predicts that while egalitarian couples never specialize and always share home …
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outearns her partner. This misreporting is best explained by the role of gender norms in individuals' self-portrayals and self-perception. …
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Unemployment influences people’s life satisfaction beyond negative income shocks. A large body of literature investigates these non-pecuniary costs of unemployment and stresses the importance of social identity and therefore social norms, especially for men. We add to this literature by...
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this background, we empirically investigate gender-role attitudes in reunified Germany. Our results show that East Germans … scenario of partial policy convergence, we also find evidence that the gap between East and West German gender role attitudes … the notion of social identity. -- political regimes ; gender role attitudes …
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The gender pay gap and the gender gap in employment remains persistent in Europe despite the basic assertion of gender … equality under EU law. We assess the factors that influence the gender pay gap and gender employment gap across European … generalized method of moment model (GMM). The main conclusions confirm that tertiary education significantly reduces gender pay …
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possible outcome reporting bias using gender differences in risk attitudes. There is a strong consensus view in the …, however, does not support the consensus: only a tiny fraction of the replications displays gender differences. This striking … outcome reporting bias in the risk and gender literature. We find no evidence that the likelihood of reporting about gender …
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-related gender inequality in earnings and (ii) assesses the impact of family policies on this inequality. We present three sets of … the 2000s. Second, we decompose overall gender inequality into child-related and child-unrelated components. Over our …-third to the increase in child-related gender inequality. Instead, a parental benefit reform in 2007 mitigated further …
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of risk aversion on winning probabilities. Our results suggest a novel explanation for the gender gap and the optimality …
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the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for …
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