TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Briel, Stephanie
AU  - Osikominu, Aderonke
AU  - Pfeifer, Gregor
AU  - Reutter, Mirjam
AU  - Satlukal, Sascha
        TI  - Overconfidence and Gender Differences in Wage Expectations
        PY  - 2020/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 13517
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp13517
        AB  - 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 are less overconfident than their male counterparts. Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions of the mean show that 7.7% of the gender gap in wage expectations is attributable to a higher overconfidence of males. Decompositions of the unconditional quantiles of expected salaries suggest that the contribution of gender differences in confidence to the gender gap is particularly strong at the bottom and top of the wage expectation distribution.
        KW  - gender pay gap
KW  - wage expectations
KW  - overconfidence
KW  - decomposition analyses
KW  - unconditional quantile regressions (RIF-Regressions)
        ER  -