This paper studies the growth effects of externalities associated with intergenerational health transmission, health … persistence, and women's occupational constraints- with particular emphasis on the role of access to infrastructure. The first … several gender-based or gender-related experiments - a reduction in the cost of child rearing, improved wage equality in the …

This paper studies the growth effects of externalities associated with intergenerational health transmission, health … persistence, and women's occupational constraints-- with particular emphasis on the role of access to infrastructure. The first … several gender-based or gender-related experiments -- a reduction in the cost of child rearing, improved wage equality in the …

This paper studies the growth effects of externalities associated with intergenerational health transmission, health … persistence, and women's occupational constraints-- with particular emphasis on the role of access to infrastructure. The first … several gender-based or gender-related experiments -- a reduction in the cost of child rearing, improved wage equality in the …

collected information on the female participants' menstrual cycles. We find that women bid significantly higher than men in … suggest an evolutionary hypothesis according to which women are genetically predisposed by hormones to generally behave more … ; menstrual cycle ; gender ; likelihood of conception ; first price auction ; risk behavior ; competition ; bidding …

with salivary progesterone when controlling for gender, the use of hormonal contraceptives, and demographics. This also … ; Gender ; Competition ; Aggression ; Dominance ; Risk-taking ; Endocrinological economics …

economic channels and find that, as singles, men live 8.5 months shorter and women 6 months longer. We conclude that about 25 …% of the marriage gain in longevity of men can be motivated by economic calculus while the marriage gain for women observed … making of a couple into a biologically founded life-cycle model of health deficit accumulation and endogenous longevity. We …

that, as singles, men live 8.5 months shorter and women 6 months longer. We conclude that about 30% of the marriage gain in … longevity of men can be motivated by economic calculus while the marriage gain for women observed in the data is attributed to … biologically-founded life-cycle model of health deficit accumulation and endogenous longevity. We calibrate the model with U …