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 …

-country surveys from 167 countries across the world, two US surveys covering multiple years and a survey for Canada. We find women … score more highly than men on all negative affect measures and lower than men on all but three positive affect metrics …'s Ladder - women are either similar to or 'happier' than men. This finding is insensitive to which controls are included and …

We examine trends in self-employment among white and black men from 1910 to 1990 using Census and CPS microdata. Self …-employment rates fell over most of the century and then started to rise after 1970. For white men, we find that the decline was due to …-employment. For black men, we find that the self-employment rate remained at a level of roughly one-third the white rate from 1910 to …

less-educated men. We find that young men, especially young African American men in tight labor markets experienced a boost … in employment and earnings. Adult men had no gains, and their earnings barely changed even in areas with unemployment …

We examine the possible sources of the larger racial and ethnic wage gaps for men than for women in the U …, industries, and regions, we examine whether these wage differences can be accounted for by differences between men and women in … establishment and job cell. Our results indicate that greater segregation between Hispanic men and white men than between Hispanic …