TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Osikominu, Aderonke
AU  - Pfeifer, Gregor
        TI  - Perceived Wages and the Gender Gap in STEM Fields
        PY  - 2018/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11321
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp11321
        AB  - We estimate gender differences in elicited wage expectations among German University students applying for STEM and non-STEM fields. Descriptively, women expect to earn less than men and also have lower expectations about wages of average graduates across different fields. Using a two-step estimation procedure accounting for self-selection, we find that the gender gap in own expected wages can be explained to the extent of 54-69% by wage expectations for average graduates across different fields. However, gender differences in the wage expectations for average graduates across different fields do not contribute to explaining the gender gap in the choice of STEM majors.
        KW  - gender gap
KW  - wage expectations
KW  - college major choice
KW  - STEM
        ER  -