) suggested that hepatitis B could explain a large share { approximately 50% { of Asia's \missing women". Subsequent work has … ratios. To test this, we collected data on the offspring gender for a cohort of 67,000 people in China who are being observed …

In contrast to less-skilled men, less-skilled women have experienced growing labor force involvement and moderate wage … increases. Compared to more-skilled women, less-skilled women have fallen behind. We investigated the reasons behind these …, from 1979-2004. We find that less-skilled women have found themselves in an 'intermediate' place in the labor market. Like …

years of life for both men and women for cohorts born 1906-1915. This association is close to linear but exhibits strong … credentialing effects, particularly for men, and is substantially smaller for cohorts born earlier. This association varies … substantially by state of birth, but it is not smaller in states with higher levels of education or longevity. For men the …

". We find that for both men and women the increase in the employment rate coincides with a reduction in the early …

models to deal with measurement error in wealth reports. Our various results show that men and women in the U.S. marry …

males. The results suggest that obesity has the most significant impact on white women's wages …

BMI has a negative impact on earnings for women, and less (if any) consequences for men. In this paper, we relax the … models that allow earnings to vary with BMI in a highly flexible manner. For women, the results show that earnings peak at … levels far below the clinical threshold of "obesity" or even "overweight". For men, our main estimates suggest a reasonably …

a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men … that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men …. These declines have continued and a new gender gap is emerging -- one with higher subjective well-being for men …

assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor … force participation rates work substantially more than women coming from countries with lower relative female labor supply … United States to the source country. Men's labor supply assimilation profiles are unaffected by source country female labor …

Recent lab and field experiments suggest that women are less effective than men in a competitive environment. In this … paper I examine how individual performance in a real work place is affected by a competitive environment and by its gender … ranking, winning rate and awarded prize did not differ by gender nor between teachers in competition groups with only female …