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regards to age, sex and ethnicity. We find that women's mental health is worse than men's along the four metrics we collected …
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The custom of bride price involves the payment of goods or cash from the groom's family to the bride's family at the time of marriage. We present a theory that views bride price as a payment in hedonic markets for marital fidelity. Data from a household survey in Uganda are used to test the...
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important: commercial sex work. In the commercial sex market, perhaps more so than any other sector in the labor market, the … commercial sex sector provides the cleanest test for whether the beauty premium is driven solely by productivity. Somewhat … surprisingly we find estimates that lie close to or comfortably within those for non-sex workers around the world. In fact, the …
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Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such … socioeconomic scale indoctrinate their daughters less than others about the perils of premarital sex, because the latter will lose …, leading to a de-stigmatization of sex. As contraception has become more effective there is less need for parents, churches and …
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. -- Sex ; alcohol ; adolescent ; peer ; risky behavior …
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sexual behaviours, including having sex before age of 16 years. Following their paper, we use unprotected sexual behaviour …
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the parent's communication about sex on her adolescent's sexual behavior. OLS models indicate that female adolescents with … less strict parents, whose mothers gave birth as teenagers, or whose mothers communicate more about sex are more likely to … have sexual intercourse, practice unsafe sex, and engage in casual sex. After controlling for the endogeneity of parental …
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This paper examines whether gay and lesbian workers sort into tolerant occupations. With information on sexual orientation, prejudice and occupational choice taken from Australian Twin Registers, we find that gays and lesbians shy away from prejudiced occupations. We show that our segregation...
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We study the long-term determinants of the high rates of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly among women, with a focus on family structure and sexual behavior as shaped by the demographic shock following the transatlantic slave trade. First we show that, in clusters where polygyny...
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It is an established fact that gay men earn less than other men and lesbian women earn more than other women. In this paper we study whether differences in competitive preferences, which have emerged as a likely determinant of labour market differences between men and women, can provide a...
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