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In contrast to less-skilled men, less-skilled women have experienced growing labor force involvement and moderate wage … increases. Compared to more-skilled women, less-skilled women have fallen behind. We investigated the reasons behind these …, from 1979-2004. We find that less-skilled women have found themselves in an 'intermediate' place in the labor market. Like …
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men and women live for many years and they differ in their fecundity, in their earnings, and in their survival … account for the age distributions of ever and never married men and women, for the probabilities of marrying a younger bride … previous literature on this topic claims that marriage is a waiting game in which women are choosier than men, and old and rich …
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consistent with the view that greater sex imbalance exerts larger pressure on men in the marriage market, leading to changes in …
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came into the canon, and came to be applied to men, only after it had been applied against women. By the time that American … which involved women who performed on stage. Only after application in a series of cases enjoining women performers did the … rule gain a foothold in American common law. This injunction was legally acceptable in cases involving women because it was …
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A model system, consisting of human, mouse and chicken as homoeothermic and lizard and toad as poikilothermic blood sources, has been used here to examine inheritance of reproductive performance in the mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus Say. The experiments were carried over from parental to F2...
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This study examines the historical origins of son preference. I test a hypothesis that son preference emerges from humanity’s adoption of intensive agriculture for subsistence. This increases the incentive to adopt patrilocal residence norms after marriage, and for sons to care for their...
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) suggested that hepatitis B could explain a large share { approximately 50% { of Asia's \missing women". Subsequent work has … ratios. To test this, we collected data on the offspring gender for a cohort of 67,000 people in China who are being observed …
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