We analyze the impact of overconfidence on gender differences in wage expectations using elicited beliefs of German … counterparts. Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions show that a substantial part (7.6%) of the gender gap in wage expectations can be … overconfidence on the gender gap is particularly strong at the bottom and top of the wage expectation distribution, suggesting that …

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

graduates in Germany, we study gender differences in the decision to stay at university as a postdoctoral researcher and in the … intention to become a professor. We find that gender gaps related to aiming for a professorship can be fully explained by … observable characteristics other than gender. On the contrary, even after adding controls for an array of characteristics …