Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - 2022
We use data on international migration to study the causal effect of gender discrimination on the sex-ratio of … immigrants to the U.S. during the 1970-2019 period. We measure gender discrimination in the countries of origin using the Women … standard deviation increase in the WBL index in a country of origin (a decrease in gender discrimination) decreases the share …