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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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extant evidence drawn from experiments executed in Western cultures, Maasai men opt to compete at roughly twice the rate as … often than Khasi men, and even choose to compete weakly more often than Maasai men. We view these results as potentially …
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Men outnumber women as undergraduate economics majors by three to one nationwide. Even at the best research … universities and liberal arts colleges men outnumber women by two to one or more. The Undergraduate Women in Economics Challenge …
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This paper examines the value of an individual's human capital and the associated return on human capital using U.S. data on male earnings and financial asset returns. We find that (1) the value of human capital is far below the value implied by discounting earnings at the risk-free rate and (2)...
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adults, and that investments in them reduce crime and violence. We recruited criminally-engaged men and randomized half to …
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men, we use an interacted difference-in-difference-in-differences model, comparing older black men to other demographic … inpatient physician interactions for older black men. Our estimates imply life expectancy at age 45 for black men fell by up to … and white men and 25% of the gap between black men and women …
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Numerous studies have found that married men earn consider-ably more than single men of the same education, experience …. Alternatively, one of the benefits of marriage is specialization in the labor force; married men spend more hours in the labor force …
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