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International Student Migration: A Partial Identification Analysis

Méango, Romuald - CESifo - 2014

This paper studies the decision made by a family to invest in student migration. We propose an empirical structural decision model which reflects the importance of both the return to the investment and the budgetary constraint in the choice of the family. We circumvent the problem of endogeneity...

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International Student Migration : A Partial Identification Analysis

Méango, Romuald - 2014

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Demand for Sexual Services in Britain : Does Sex Education Matter?

Strøm, Steinar - 2018

We investigate the prevalence of factors associated with participation in the sex market among men resident in Britain … percentage of men asking for paid sex is about 12 per cent in 2010-2012 and it has increased from 10 per cent in 1999-2001. We … estimate both the probability of having had sex with a prostitute and the expected number of times men had been together with …

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Male Education and Domestic Violence in Turkey : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Ozer, Mustafa - 2017

that the marriage was arranged against the woman's will, and makes men less inclined to engage in socially unacceptable …

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Team Production, Gender Diversity, and Male Courtship Behavior

von Siemens, Ferdinand - 2015

This theoretical paper explores the impact of gender diversity on team production. The key assumption is that men … expected team production if (i) men and women have similar expected ability, and (ii) monetary incentives to exert effort are …

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When Work Disappears : Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage Market Value of Young Men

Autor, David H. - 2018

manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage …

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What Happens to the Husband's Retirement Decision When the Wife's Retirement Incentives Change?

Selin, Hakan - 2012

Several studies have documented a strong correlation in the timing of spouses' retirement decisions. However, considerably less is known about the causal impact of one spouse's retirement incentives on the retirement decision of the other spouse. Before, but not after, 2001 broad categories of...

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Unemployment and Domestic Violence : Theory and Evidence

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; … - 2021

Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The contribution of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of domestic abuse. The key theoretical prediction is that male...

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US Male Obesity from 1800-2000 : A Long Term Perspective

Carson, Scott Alan - 2021

This study compares two US BMI data sets, one from the 1800s and the other from the early 2000s, to determine how black and white male obesity rates varied between 1800 and 2000. The proportion of individuals who were obese rather than overweight is responsible much of the increase in obesity....

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Baby Booming Inequality? Demographic Change and Earnings Inequality in Norway, 1967-2000

Almås, Ingvild; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2021

In this paper, we demonstrate how age-adjusted inequality measures can be used to evaluate whether changes in inequality over time are due to changes in the age structure. To this end, we use administrative data on earnings for every male Norwegian during 1967-2000. We find that the substantial...

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