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Public disability insurance (DI) programs in many countries face pressure to reduce their generosity in order to remain sustainable. In this paper, we investigate the welfare effects of giving a larger role to private insurance markets in the face of public DI cuts. Exploiting a unique reform...
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We investigate how changes in the sex ratio induced by World War II affected the bargaining patterns of Italian men in … that men in post-war marriages were better off in terms of their spouse's education, this gain amounting to about half a …
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We analyze the effect of the coach’s gender on risk-taking in women sports teams using data taken from National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball games. We find that the coach’s gender has a sizable and significant effect on risk-taking, a finding that is robust to several...
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The passage of Title IX, the 1972 Education Amendments to the Civil Rights Act, expanded high school athletic opportunities to include girls, revolutionizing mass sports participation in the United States. This paper analyzes high school athletic participation in the United States and how sports...
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routine and mostly physical work of blue collar workers, but it has also created positive employment spillovers in other … and its heterogeneous effects on the labor market opportunities of men and women affected demographic behavior. We focus … participation declined, reducing the relative economic stature of men. Regions affected by intense robot penetration experienced …
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single is treated as given, and it captures returns from employment. Single unemployed men conduct a so-called constrained …-taking a costly ex-ante investment in schooling. We establish the existence of market equilibria where a fraction of men get …
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Previous work shows that higher male wage inequality decreases the share of ever married women in their 20s, consistent with the theoretical prediction that greater male wage dispersion increases the return to marital search. Consequently, male wage inequality should be associated with higher...
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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the host country, may suffer from serious cultural biases. Our study evades such biases by utilizing a destination-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to...
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filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), along with an objective measure of the quality of those …
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generally rise with an ageing labour force. Also, part-time employment induces firms to engage more older workers but this …
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