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Overconfidence and gender

Bilgehan Tekin (Cankiri Karatekin): The Effect of Overconfidence and Gender on the Investment Decisions. Men under 35 are so confident that they suspect discrimination when they don’t get the job. Gender quotas and the crisis of the mediocre man: Quotas aren’t anathema to meritocracy — they increase competence levels by displacing mediocre men. “I made that bitch famous”: A brief history of men getting credit for women’s accomplishments. Thomas Edsall on the increasing significance of the decline of men. As video games get better and job prospects worse, more young men are dropping out of the job market to spend their time in an alternate reality; Ryan Avent suspects this is the beginning of something big.