In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … contribute to observed gender wage gaps. We conduct laboratory experiments in which subjects choose between a risky (in terms of … more likely than men to select the secure job, and these job choices accounted for between 40% and 77% of the gender wage …

The authors analyze gender differences in fairness perceptions of own wages and subsequent wage growth. The main …-related characteristics are taken into account. Furthermore, the gender difference is more pronounced for married than for single women. This … points to the fact that social norms, gender roles, and gender identity are at least partly responsible for the gap in …

speculation that a gender difference in competitiveness contributes to the gender wage gap. Using data from the NLSY79 and NLSY97 …, we show that women are less likely to be employed in jobs using competitive compensation. The portion of the gender wage … gap explained by gender segregation in compensation schemes is small in the NLSY79 but somewhat larger in the NLSY97 …

-and-after data from hospital wards. We test for the causal effects of learning child gender upon people's degree of risk …

observed gender differences in behaviour under uncertainty found in previous studies might partly reflect social learning … rather than inherent gender traits …

differences in the discount rates of men and women, we find gender differences in the character of hyperbolic discounting in which … women display greater patience in their quot;present bias.quot; We also identify a gender-mood interaction: Negative mood in …