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 …

distribution of individuals from different groups is obtained by comparing expected utilities from employment and entrepreneurship …

We analyze the impact of (over-)confidence on gender differences in expected starting salaries using elicited beliefs … of prospective university students in Germany. According to our results, female students have lower wage expectations and … gender gap in wage expectations is attributable to a higher overconfidence of males. Decompositions of the unconditional …

shows that in the context of sample mean probability decompositions, error variance normalizations preclude estimation of …