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It follows from a number of theoretical models of marriage that the scarcer women are relative to men, i.e. the higher the sex ratio, the less married women are likely to participate in the labor force. Such sex ratio effects may be stronger among less educated women. These predictions are...
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This paper examines the extent to which the Great Recession affected gender composition at birth. We focus on ethnic …
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Using a natural experiment in Taiwan, this paper shows that exposure to male-biased sex ratios at the marriageable ages is associated with a greater likelihood of death in later life. Half a million soldiers from Mainland China who retreated to Taiwan after a civil war in the late 1940s were...
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part of the increase in criminality. The primary avenue through which the sex-ratio increases crime, however, is the direct …
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district level administrative crime data by category to age- specific sex ratios in census data across four decades and, to … men age 20-24 is unity, and that this explains about 35% of the rise in gender-based violence since 1995. Although less … discernible impact upon property and economic crime. In probing mechanisms we argue that men are more prone to crime than women …
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Sex ratios (males to females) rose markedly in China in the last two decades, and crime rates nearly doubled. This … the period 1988-2004, we show that a 0.01 increase in the sex ratio raised violent and property crime rates by some 3 …%, suggesting that the rise in excess males may account for up to one-seventh of the overall rise in crime. -- Male-biased sex …
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part of the increase in criminality. The primary avenue through which the sex-ratio increases crime, however, is the direct …
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part of the increase in criminality. The primary avenue through which the sex-ratio increases crime, however, is the direct …
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