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willingness to take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to height and parental education …
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take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to height and parental education. We test …
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In a recent paper in the Review of Economic Studies, Siwan Anderson and Debraj Ray (Anderson and Ray, 2010) develop and apply a new "flow" measure of "missing women" to estimate the extent of gender bias in mortality in developing countries. Contrary to the existing literature, they find that...
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When permitted by law, employers sometimes state the preferred age and sex of their employees in job ads. We study this … maximum age. We also document a new stylized fact we call the age twist in gender profiling: firms' explicit gender requests … of this twist can be attributed to employers' age-dependent requests for (female) beauty and (male) leadership, the …
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Existing estimates of the ’tock of missing women’ suggest that the problem is mostly concentrated in South and East Asia, and often related to sex-selective abortions and postbirth neglect of female children. In contrast, estimates of yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the ’flow...
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Existing estimates of the 'stock of missing women' suggest that the problem is mostly concentrated in South and East Asia, and often related to sex-selective abortions and postbirth neglect of female children. In contrast, estimates of yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the 'flow of...
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Covid-19 and the measures taken to contain it have led to unprecedented constraints on work and leisure activities, across the world. This paper uses nationally representative surveys to document how people of different ages and incomes have been affected across six countries (China, South...
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