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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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candidates disclose. Men are more likely than women to disclose their salaries unprompted, especially if they believe other …
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Men have fallen behind women in education in developed countries. Why? I study the impact of a transitory increase in … the opportunity cost of schooling on men's and women's educational attainment. I exploit a reform in Iceland that lowered … opportunity increased the dropout rate and led to a permanent loss in years of education for young men, but had no effect on the …
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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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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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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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-retroviral therapy (ART) to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic - in Africa. To identify the effect, we combine exogenous variation in the scope …
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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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men and in establishments with a higher share of male managers. Second, we test whether less generous UI benefits create …
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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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