We investigate how changes in the sex ratio induced by World War II affected the bargaining patterns of Italian men in …

We investigate how changes in the sex ratio induced by World War II affected the bargaining patterns of Italian men in …

This paper revisits the relationship between agricultural productivity shocks and the infant sex ratio in India and … behavior leads to a relatively more balanced sex ratio in good rainfall years and a more skewed sex ratio (in favor of boys) in … relationship between rainfall and the infant sex ratio. Using a back-of-the-envelope calculation, we find that the program could …

This paper studies the role of population sex ratio, i.e. ratio of men to women, in the global wave of sodomy law … that high sex ratio causally makes sodomy law less likely to be repealed. The result is robust to numerous checks …, including using temperature as an instrumental variable for sex ratio. …

This study explores the effects of imbalances in the sex ratio, and their impact on intra-household bargaining, on both … presence of conflicting family goals within a couple, and show that male scarcity (a decrease in the male to female sex ratio … War II on the sex ratio, as a quasi-natural experiment, we establish empirically that the decrease in the male to female …