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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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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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-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 …
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Can some acts of violence be explained by a society's "culture"? 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 thousands 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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This article discusses son preference in India, including both greater investment in sons and the fertility preference for sons. Regarding differential investment, I focus on child health and show that gender gaps in inputs and outcomes have narrowed in recent years. Nonetheless, girls remain...
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This paper investigates to what extent the differences in education between black and white men can be explained by the … population as the respective reference groups for black men and white men. We find that the impact of mortality risk on schooling …
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that men and women are similarly responsive to their own incentives. I further find that men are very responsive to their … will bias the estimated effect of changing Social Security policy on men's labor force participation …
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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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concentrated among low-skilled men in private sector industries. With the steady decline in private sector unionization and rising … inequality among men but not among women …
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