An intuitively appealing method for estimating gender wage gaps by industry is shown to yield estimates that vary … status. This study uses data from the Current Population Surveys to explore alternative methods for estimating gender wage …

/Growth/International and are more likely to specialize in Agricultural/Resource/Environmental Economics. Field-specific gender faculty ratios … and expected relative salaries as well as economics department rankings are significant factors for gender doctoral …

/Growth/International and are more likely to specialize in Agricultural/Resource/Environmental Economics. Field-specific gender faculty ratios … and expected relative salaries as well as economics department rankings are significant factors for gender doctoral …

sample of professionals is decomposed into several subsamples: men and women and within each gender a distinction is made …). Comparisons by gender and ethnicity can then be made. Characteristics (endowments) and wage structures of the four groups are …

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 …