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 …

The concentration of women in the teaching profession is widely noted and generally attributed to gender differences in … preferences and social roles. Further, gender segregation exists within this profession – women make up almost all of the primary … administrative roles. To what extent is this gender structure in teaching a response to economic incentives from the labour market …

welfare effects of gender based taxation (GBT) as compared to other policies based on different optimal taxation principles …

the US, separately by gender and marital status. Measurement differences are netted out by using a harmonized empirical …

Using data from the 1970 British Cohort Study, we investigate the role of maternal gender role attitudes in explaining …'s later educational outcomes and labour supply. We find that mothers' and children's gender role attitudes, measured some 25 … their mothers held non-traditional (pro-gender-equality) beliefs, even if they were not working themselves. Consistent with …

This study investigates possible reasons for the gender difference in sickness absence. We estimate both short- and …

piece-rate wage, we investigate the causal effect of neutral and gender-discriminatory unfair chances on labor supply. We …, unfair based on an unspecified source, or unfair based on gender discrimination. Unequal pay reduces labor supply of low … chances matters.When a low wage is the result of gender-discriminatory chances, workers matched with a high-wage worker …