Using micro-data from 48 developing countries, I document a recent reversal in the income-fertility relationship and … century's end, both patterns had reversed. Consequently, income differentials in fertility historically raised average …

occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. males. A recent history of blue …

incomplete. This paper studies the implications of status competition in the marriage market for the real exchange rate. In …

This paper estimates treatment size and status specific peer effects that are not detected by widely-used approaches to … spillovers vary greatly by treatment status. Results highlight subtle effects of randomization and document a low-cost method for …

in a hierarchy. The problem of designing an efficient policy to raise the status in this competition of a disadvantaged …

relationships between socio-economic status and health. We describe the approach of testing for the absence of causal channels …

- particularly, its socioeconomic status - and their longevity and specific cause of death. Individuals living before age 5 in lower …

consequences for housing prices if housing is also a status good. More concretely, if a family's housing wealth relative to others … is an important marker for relative status in the marriage market, then competition for marriage partners might motivate … the intensity of status competition. Our innovation is to explore regional variations in the sex ratio for the pre …