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More Choice for Men? Marriage Patterns after World War Ii in Italy
Battistin, Erich - 2020
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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Do Male Managers Increase Risk-Taking of Female Teams? Evidence from the NCAA
Böheim, René - 2019
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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Title IX and the Evolution of High School Sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2021
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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Robots, Marriageable Men, Family, and Fertility
Anelli, Massimo; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2021
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 … relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior …
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Male Investment in Schooling with Frictional Labour and Marriage Markets
Bonilla, Roberto - 2020
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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Male Wage Inequality and Characteristics of "Early Mover" Marriages
Mansour, Hani; McKinnish, Terra - 2022
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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Shareholder Liability and Bank Failure
Aldunate, Felipe; Jenter, Dirk; Korteweg, Arthur G.; … - 2021
Does enhanced shareholder liability reduce bank failure? We compare the performance of around 4,200 state-regulated banks of similar size in neighboring U.S. states with different liability regimes during the Great Depression. The distress rate of limited liability banks was 29% higher than that...
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How Do Financial Crises Redistribute Risk?
Mitchener, Kris James; Vossmeyer, Angela - 2023
We examine how financial crises redistribute risk, employing novel empirical methods and micro data from the largest financial crisis of the 20th century – the Great Depression. Using balance-sheet and systemic risk measures at the bank level, we build an econometric model with incidental...
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Bank competition, asset allocations and risk of failure: An empirical investigation
Boyd, John; De Nicolò, Gianni; Jalal, Abu M. - 2010
This study is an empirical investigation of theoretical predictions concerning the impact of bank competition on bank risk and asset allocations. Recent work (Boyd, De Nicolò and Jalal, 2009, BDNJ henceforth) predicts that as competition in banking increases, the loan-to-asset ratio will rise...
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Cross-Country Evidence on Teacher Performance Pay
Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
The general-equilibrium effects of performance-related teacher pay include long-term incentive and teacher-sorting mechanisms that usually elude experimental studies but are captured in cross-country comparisons. Combining country-level performance-pay measures with rich PISA-2003 international...
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