Using multiple sources of individual-level administrative data from the multicultural city-state of Singapore, we study the life outcomes of large birth cohorts created by the Chinese superstitious practice of zodiac birth timing, where parents prefer to give birth in the year of the Dragon....

We study the participation of women in golf, a predominately male social activity, and its influence on their likelihood of serving on a board of directors. Exploiting a novel dataset of all golf games in Singapore, we find that woman golfers enjoy a 54% higher likelihood of serving on a board...

We estimate the rate of intergenerational mobility in housing consumption in the context of large-scale social engineering programs in Singapore. Using a comprehensive set of data on residential demographics merged with the real housing transaction records covering 149,745 parents-child pairs...

This paper investigates the spillover effect from the housing market to the marriage market. In 2001, Singapore introduced the Build-to-Order (BTO) scheme to build and allocate new public housing to eligible Singaporean families. Using the BTO scheme in a quasi-natural experiment, we study how a...