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India's male-biased sex ratio has worsened over the past several decades. In combination with the increased availability of prenatal sex-diagnostic technology, the declining fertility rate is a hypothesized factor. Suppose a couple strongly wants to have at least one son. At the natural sex...
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years of life for both men and women for cohorts born 1906-1915. This association is close to linear but exhibits strong … credentialing effects, particularly for men, and is substantially smaller for cohorts born earlier. This association varies … substantially by state of birth, but it is not smaller in states with higher levels of education or longevity. For men the …
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". We find that for both men and women the increase in the employment rate coincides with a reduction in the early …
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models to deal with measurement error in wealth reports. Our various results show that men and women in the U.S. marry …
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males. The results suggest that obesity has the most significant impact on white women's wages …
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BMI has a negative impact on earnings for women, and less (if any) consequences for men. In this paper, we relax the … models that allow earnings to vary with BMI in a highly flexible manner. For women, the results show that earnings peak at … levels far below the clinical threshold of "obesity" or even "overweight". For men, our main estimates suggest a reasonably …
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that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men … a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men …By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show …
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assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor … force participation rates work substantially more than women coming from countries with lower relative female labor supply … United States to the source country. Men's labor supply assimilation profiles are unaffected by source country female labor …
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Recent lab and field experiments suggest that women are less effective than men in a competitive environment. In this … in teachers' awareness and familiarity with the program and its rules, and in effort and teaching methods. Women though … were more pessimistic about the effectiveness of teachers' performance pay and more realistic than men about their …
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) suggested that hepatitis B could explain a large share { approximately 50% { of Asia's \missing women". Subsequent work has …
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