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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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Using data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), we construct two measures of the longevity of older wives and husbands. For definiteness, we focus on couples in which the wife was 60 and the husband 62 in 1988. Our first measure utilizes a 4 x 4 "longevity matrix" in which the bins...
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This paper provides quasi-experimental evidence on the impact of paid leave legislation on fathers' leave-taking, as well as on the division of leave between mothers and fathers in dual-earner households. Using difference-in-difference and difference-in-difference-in-difference designs, we study...
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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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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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