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steady increase in the surplus of men relative to women. We construct an OLG model with two sexes and a desire to marry. We … show conditions under which an intensified competition in the marriage market can induce men to raise their savings rate …
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Fetal health is an important consideration in the formation of health-based policy. However, a complete census of true fetal deaths is impossible to obtain. We present the gender ratio of live births as an under-exploited metric of fetal health and apply it to examine the effects of air quality...
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Can some acts of violence be explained by a society's quot;culturequot;? Scholars have found it hard to empirically disentangle the effects of culture, legal institutions, and poverty in driving violence. We address this problem by exploiting a natural experiment offered by the presence of...
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We study which dimensions of corporate culture are related to a firm's performance and why. We find that proclaimed values appear irrelevant. Yet, when employees perceive top managers as trustworthy and ethical, firm's performance is stronger. We then study how different governance structures...
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We estimate the impact of employer-provided retiree health insurance on the rate at which men aged 51-62 enter and exit …
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that men who experienced greater intensity of the Earthquake became more risk tolerant after the Earthquake. Furthermore …, these men gamble more, which is consistent with the direction of changes in risk preferences. We find no such pattern for … women. Finally, the effects on men's risk preferences are persistent even five years after the Earthquake at almost the same …
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impacts of war exposure on education. War exposed men marry later and have fewer children. War exposure of mothers (but not …
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Younger men, ages 21 to 30, exhibited a larger decline in work hours over the last fifteen years than older men or … women. Since 2004, time-use data show that younger men distinctly shifted their leisure to video gaming and other … younger men's labor supply. The starting point is a leisure demand system that parallels that often estimated for consumption …
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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 …
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We explore recent trends in the labour force participation rates of men aged 55-69 in Canada. Following steady declines … in participation until the mid-1990s, the participation rates of older men have increased substantially and have reached … historically high rates among those aged 65-69. We consider various factors that may influence the participation rates of older men …
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