We analyze how subjects' self-assessment depends on whether its accuracy is observable to others. We find that women downgrade their self-assessment given observability while men do not. Women avoid the shame they may have if others observe that they overestimated themselves. Men, however, do...

Issues in the contingent valuation of environmental goods : methodologies for data collection and analysis / Gregory K. Leonard -- exploring a budget context for contingent valuation lestimates / Christopher Maxwell -- Where do the numbers come from? : how people respond to contingent valuation...