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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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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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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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How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by World War II to identify the effects of unbalanced sex ratios on Russian women. Using unique data from the Soviet archives, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower...
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In this paper, we analyze the relationship between potential worker supply, measured through sex ratios, and commuting times in the United States. Using the American Time Use Survey 2003-2014, we analyze the relationship between commuting times and sex ratios by state and age, and show that the...
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of approximately 11 million missing women in China, and contributed to more than 50% of its outstanding gender imbalance …
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