Briel, Stephanie; Pfeifer, Gregor; Reutter, Mirjam; … - 2019 - Preliminary Draft
We analyze the impact of overconfidence on gender differences in wage expectations using elicited beliefs of German … explained by stronger overconfidence of males. Applying recentered influence function decompositions, we find that the impact of … overconfidence on the gender gap is particularly strong at the bottom and top of the wage expectation distribution, suggesting that …