implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and its effects on China's workers. The government and local labor bureaus have made …

We study firms' advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet job board, and interpret … these patterns using a simple employer search model. The model allows us to distinguish firms’ underlying gender preferences … from firms’ propensities to restrict their search to their preferred gender. The model also predicts that higher job skill …

We examine the effects of fast-food restaurant advertising on television on the body composition of adolescents as … from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 and data on local fast-food restaurant advertising on television from … Competitive Media Reporting. Exposure to fast-food restaurant advertising on television causes statistically significant increases …

of individuals to information. Goods advertising is competing with political information for people's attention. This …

, restrictions on purchase and use, providing information and restricting advertising. The chapter concludes with suggestions for …

This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised … advertising is rampant and products are generally ineffective with potentially serious side effects. We control for the targeting … exposure to deceptive advertising is associated with a lower probability that women, and a higher probability that men, consume …

wages of natives in the U.S. Yet, despite the significant degree of occupational segregation by gender regardless of workers … the task specialization and occupational distribution of natives of the same gender. …

investigate how the gender composition of the top layer of management affects a variety of establishment and worker outcomes. We … use two different measures to identify the gender composition of the top layer based on direct survey data: the fraction …