I consider the alcohol consumption of opposite-gender peers as explanatory to adolescent sexual intercourse and … demonstrate that female sexual activity is higher where there is higher alcohol consumption among male peers. This relationship is … groups, and is distinctly different from any influence of the alcohol consumption of female peers which is shown to have no …

We consider the effect of legal access to alcohol, which is known to increase drinking behavior, on academic … there are effects on women and that the effects are persistent. The main results are robust to the inclusion of individual …

associated with a nearly 9 percent decrease in traffic fatalities, most likely to due to its impact on alcohol consumption. Our … estimates provide strong evidence that marijuana and alcohol are substitutes. …

men and women live for many years and they differ in their fecundity, in their earnings, and in their survival … account for the age distributions of ever and never married men and women, for the probabilities of marrying a younger bride … previous literature on this topic claims that marriage is a waiting game in which women are choosier than men, and old and rich …

fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women … respectively, with the effect of mother's fertility and labor supply larger than that of women from the father's source country … stronger effect of father's than mother's education. Second-generation women's schooling levels are negatively affected by …

assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor … force participation rates work substantially more than women coming from countries with lower relative female labor supply … when we control for wage offers and family formation decisions, as well as when we control for the emigration rate from the …

that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men … a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men …By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show …

We study the link between family violence and the emotional cues associated with wins and losses by local professional … of at-home violence by men against their wives and girlfriends. In contrast, losses when the game was expected to be … football teams. We hypothesize that the risk of violence is affected by the 'gain-loss' utility of game outcomes around a …

primary basis for continued efforts to restrict youth access to alcohol. It is important to keep in mind, though, that … policymakers have a wide variety of alcohol-control options available to them, and understanding how these policies may complement … alcohol has effects on motor vehicle accidents of any type in New South Wales, despite having large effects on drinking and on …