In this paper I investigate response bias in survey data on annual driving mileage and evaluate the performance of a … designed to correct for reporting bias, to allow misreporting at the lower censoring point. Orbit fails to detect the nature of … the bias and distorts the income elasticity estimate even further. The message for practitioners using biased data is …

, dass sich sowohl das Geschlecht der Einstellungssubjekte (Studentinnen/Studenten) als auch das Geschlecht der …

from players with such an incentive and from neutral third parties with no incentive to bias their beliefs. We find no … difference between the two sets of beliefs, suggesting that people do not negatively bias their beliefs about a strategic … strategic belief manipulation and a novel experiment in which we replicate Di Tella, et al.'s, experiment and also elicit the …

importance of structural change in reducing gender disparities by decreasing the labor demand for physical attributes. The … results show that India, the country with the greatest physical labor requirements, exhibits the largest labor market gender … inequality. In contrast, Brazil's labor requirements have followed a similar trend seen in the United States, reducing gender …

We study the development of wage elasticity of labor supply for Austrian men and women over time using comparable and … behavior of single women. Most remarkable is the almost continuous reduction in the labor supply reactions of married women …

Are there any differences in how men and women fare from unemployment in terms of the wages they receive on a new job … experience unemployment will suffer a reduction of subsequent wages while no such effect could be found for women. These findings … support the interpretation that women invest more in general rather than specific human capital which make them less exposed …

. The timing of women's higher-wage employment relative to child bearing is crucial for its effect on fertility. If women … effect, which reduces fertility. In contrast, if the time period when women work abroad does not coincide with the period …

willingness of men and women to make risky decisions on behalf of a group, (2) the amount of risk men and women take for the group … lower fraction of women being willing to make the group decision than men. The amount of risk taken for the group is … generally lower than in the case where subjects decide for themselves only, indicating a cautious shift. The women that would …

This paper analyzes the evolution of gender segregation in the workplace in Mexico between 1994 and 2004, using a … matching comparisons technique to explore the role of individual and family characteristics in determining gender segregation … gender wage gaps by 5 percentage points, while the elimination of occupational segregation would have increased gender wage …

This paper explores the evolution of Brazilian wage gaps by gender and skin color over a decade (1996-2006), using the … along the gender divide, although both noticeably decreased over the course of the last decade. The decomposition results … racial wage gaps, observable human capital characteristics account for most of the observed wage gaps, the observed gender …