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recently. Such beliefs are false if the onset of events is in fact independent of previous events. We study gender differences …
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This paper studies how individuals believe human capital investments will affect their future career and family life. We conducted a survey of high-ability currently enrolled college students and elicited beliefs about how their choice of college major, and whether to complete their degree at...
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maximum age. We also document a new stylized fact we call the age twist in gender profiling: firms' explicit gender requests …When permitted by law, employers sometimes state the preferred age and sex of their employees in job ads. We study this …-skilled production and service workers in China, 72 percent of ads specified a preferred gender, and 77 percent listed both a minimum and …
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This study develops a job-signaling model to study the gender wage gap for occupations in which both cognitive and non … gender wage gap occurs when working women divert time away from sociability capital accumulation to meet family …
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We analyze the impact of (over-)confidence on gender differences in expected starting salaries using elicited beliefs … gender gap in wage expectations is attributable to a higher overconfidence of males. Decompositions of the unconditional … quantiles of expected salaries suggest that the contribution of gender differences in confidence to the gender gap is …
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We analyze the impact of (over-)confidence on gender differences in expected starting salaries using elicited beliefs … gender gap in wage expectations is attributable to a higher overconfidence of males. Decompositions of the unconditional … quantiles of expected salaries suggest that the contribution of gender differences in confidence to the gender gap is …
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treatment effects around the threshold of age 25 where PBD rules change in the considered Swiss UI system. We find substantial …
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Recent studies exploring sibling rivalry in the allocation of household resources in the U.S. produce conflicting results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) we are able to...
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We investigate whether the Big Five Personality Dimensions contribute to explaining gender and migrant wage gaps by … using a linked employer-employee dataset. We expand the scarce literature concerning personality traits and gender wage gaps … associations between the Big Five and wages. The magnitude of this relationship varies across the gender and the migratory status …
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The theory of differential overqualification, developed by Robert Frank (1978), claims that married women in smaller labor markets have a higher risk of working in jobs for which they are overqualified. This stems from the problem of dual job search for couples which is much more difficult to...
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