BMI has a negative impact on earnings for women, and less (if any) consequences for men. In this paper, we relax the … levels far below the clinical threshold of "obesity" or even "overweight". For men, our main estimates suggest a reasonably …

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 …. These declines have continued and a new gender gap is emerging -- one with higher subjective well-being for men …

economic position of men in these populations is at least partially responsible for these trends. That leads to the reverse … hypothesis that an increase in potential earnings of less-educated men would correspondingly lead to an increase in marriage and … led to increased wages for non-college-educated men. A reduced form analysis reveals that in response to local …

acquisition and expectations, but these results are markedly different for young men and young women. Shortly after completing the …-run effects on labor market outcomes for males. While these effects seem to dissipate in the long run, employed men are … downside if, like in this case for men, training creates expectations that are not met …