on the probability of employment in many, though not all, occupations in ways that differ by gender. Consequently, men … gender wage gap that is unexplained …

gender wage gap to assess the contribution of observed characteristics measuring individual productivity. We find that the … gender wage gap narrowed by more than 13 percent at the lowest decile and by less than 4 percent at the highest decile. The … decomposition results indicate that changes in the gender wage gap are mainly attributable to changes in educational attainment at …

factors in income differences - race and gender - that contribute to income inequality within the population of blacks and … inequality associated with gender exceeds greatly that of race. While gender income inequality falls over time, income inequality …

considerably larger shares of the gender wage gap than does the standard decomposition …

differences in achievement into gender differences in endowments and returns to IQ and non-cognitive factors. This descriptive … resources and take similar advantage of these resources.Our findings indicate that gender differences in resources with respect …

We develop a new approach to the decomposition of income risk within a nonstationary model of intertemporal choice. The … approach allows for changes in income risk over the life-cycle and with the business cycle. It requires only repeated cross … decomposing income risk. The approach is used to investigate the changes in income risk in Britain across the inequality growth …

This paper examines the links between gender differences in attitudes towards economic risk and the gender pay gap … risk are associated with higher earnings, and that gender differences in attitudes towards economic risk can account for a …. Consistent with the literature on the socio-economic determinants of attitudes towards economic risk, it shows that females are …

Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking attitudes in … observed gender differences in behaviour under uncertainty found in previous studies might partly reflect social learning … rather than inherent gender traits …

between the impact of gender on risk attitudes and the hypothetical lottery investment suggests that impatience and framing …In this paper we utilise data from a unique new birth‐cohort study to see how the risk preferences of young people are … affected by cognitive skills and gender. We find that cognitive ability (measured by the percentile ranking for university …