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 … counterparts. Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions show that a substantial part (7.6%) of the gender gap in wage expectations can be … overconfidence on the gender gap is particularly strong at the bottom and top of the wage expectation distribution, suggesting that …