Shimizutani, Satoshi; Yamada, Hiroyuki - In: Applied Economics Letters 21 (2014) 16, pp. 1174-1178
This article explores the long-term consequence of a prevailing superstition regarding women who were born in 1966, a year of the fire horse, who were around 44 years of age in 2010. The findings indicate that 'fire horse women' are disadvantaged in some aspects such as divorce rates,...