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during the famine. Finally, controlling for pre-famine fertility, we find that women who were pregnant during the Famine …
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experiment to study the effects of sex ratio changes on out-of-wedlock fertility. Our findings show that war-induced shortfalls … of men to women significantly increased the nonmarital fertility ratio at mid century, a result that proves robust to the … use of alternative sex ratio definitions, post-war measures of fertility, and estimation samples. The magnitude of this …
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In belligerent countries, male-to-female sex ratios at birth increased during and shortly after the two world wars. These rises still defy explanation. Several causes have been suggested (but not tested) in the literature. Many of these causes are proximate in nature, reflecting behavioral...
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In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level, including community participation and prosocial behavior. Thus...
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In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level, including community participation and prosocial behavior. Thus...
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