effect is that initially routine-intensive local labor markets experienced greater occupational gender integration. College …

There is a large gender gap in the probability of being in a "top job" in mid-career. Top jobs bring higher earnings … women. We then use linear regression and decomposition techniques to account for the gender gap in top jobs including our … measure of overconfidence. Our results show that men being more overconfident explains 5-11 percent of the gender gap in top …

of underrepresented groups, assuming that gender differences in interactions and cultural differences and prejudice may … early 1990s in the United States can help explain why the gender wage gap closed and the black-white wage gap stagnated in …