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An equilibrium model of the African HIV/AIDS epidemic

Greenwood, Jeremy; Kircher, Philipp - 2018

Twelve percent of the Malawian population is HIV infected. Eighteen percent of sexual encounters are casual. A condom is used a third of the time. To analyze the Malawian epidemic, a choice-theoretic general equilibrium search model is constructed. In the developed framework, people select...

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Male wage inequality and characteristics of "early mover" marriages

Mansour, Hani; McKinnish, Terra G. - 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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Reducing sexual-orientation discrimination : experimental evidence from basic information treatments

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Carpenter, Christopher; Haas, Ralph de - 2022

We study basic information treatments regarding sexual orientation using randomized experiments in three countries with strong and widespread anti-gay attitudes: Serbia, Turkey, and Ukraine. Participants who received information about the economic costs to society of sexual-orientation...

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On the economic origins of restrictions on women's sexuality

Becker, Anke - 2019

This paper studies the origins and function of customs aimed at restricting women's sexuality, such as a particularly … extended periods of male absence from the settlement, implying larger payoffs to imposing restrictions on women's sexuality …

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Demand for sexual services in Britain : does sex education matter?

Strøm, Steinar; Locatelli Biey, Marilena - 2017

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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Baby booming inequality? : demographic change and earnings inequality in Norway, 1967-2000

Almås, Ingvild; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2010

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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Title IX and the evolution of high school sports

Stevenson, Betsey (contributor) - 2007

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Unemployment and domestic violence : theory and evidence

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; … - 2013

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 - 2013

This paper calls into question the currently most influential model of international trade. An empirical finding by Trefler (2004, AER) and others that industrial productivity increases more strongly in liberalized industries than in non-liberalized industries has been widely accepted as...

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What happens to the husband's retirement decision when the wife's retirement incentives change?

Selin, Håkan - 2012 - This version: 2012-03-22

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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