Expectations bias is among the top gender issues for female economists because we are predisposed to think of a male when looking at academic research.
Our everyday economics includes wages, externalities, productivity, income, tradeoff, taxes, fiscal policy, gender, human capital and comparative advantage.
Because the presence of women in Major League Baseball (MLB) management positions is very small, they have diminished their talented human capital supply.
Our everyday economics includes social norms, tradeoffs, financial intermediaries, human capital, sovereign debt, externalities,labor markets, & gender gap.
The behavioral economics ideas from our everyday economics are confirmation, expectations and projection bias, frames, temporal discounting and sunk costs.
In behavioral economics, expectations bias studies on rats from Robert Rosenthal show how the small number of female CEOS is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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