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of behavioral response in Africa is of a similar order of magnitude to that among gay men in the United States, once …
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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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Using a 40-year panel of all public school teachers and principals in New York State, we explore how female principals affect rates of teacher turnover--an important determinant of school quality. We find that male teachers are about 12% more likely to leave their schools when they work under...
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Globally, men and women face markedly different risks of obesity. In all but of handful of (primarily Western European …) countries, obesity is more prevalent among women than men. In this paper, we examine several potential explanations for this … phenomenon. We analyze differences between men and women in reports and effects of the proximate causes of obesity -- physical …
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This paper evaluates the evidence regarding teens' sexual activity and birth control use with an emphasis on the contribution of economic analysis. For non-economists, teen sexual activity is often considered spontaneous and irrational, and pregnancies are viewed as mistakes.' Alternatively an...
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This paper examines the impact of induced abortion on birth outcomes by treating abortion as an endogenous input into the production of infant health. To gauge the direct and indirect effect of abortion, three measures of infant health are considered simultaneously: the neonatal sortality rate,...
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1996-2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. We find that cigarette taxes significantly reduced smoking among men … and women in same-sex households, and the effects we find for men in same-sex households are significantly larger than the … associated effects for men in different-sex households (the vast majority of whom are heterosexual married/partnered men). This …
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We test the effectiveness of an entertainment education TV series, MTV Shuga, aimed at providing information and changing attitudes and behaviors related to HIV/AIDS. Using a simple model we show that "edutainment" can work through an individual or a social channel. We conducted a randomized...
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Economic growth and development have improved human health in many regions, while sub-Saharan Africa continues to lag behind. Economic theory and the existing empirical evidence suggest that development may not generate large reductions in the leading cause of adult mortality in the region,...
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We study the behavioral changes due to marijuana consumption on fertility and its key mechanisms, as opposed to physiological changes. We can employ several large proprietary data sets, including the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, Nielsen Retail Scanner database, as well as the...
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