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Macroeconomics has not done well in recent years: The standard models didn't predict the Great Recession; and even said it couldn't happen. After the bubble burst, the models did not predict the full consequences. The paper traces the failures to the attempts, beginning in the 1970s, to...
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concentrated among low-skilled men in private sector industries. With the steady decline in private sector unionization and rising … inequality among men but not among women. In both countries we find striking differences between the private and public sectors …
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fetal deaths is impossible to obtain. We present the gender ratio of live births as an under-exploited metric of fetal …
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We examine gender differences in bargaining outcomes in a highly competitive and commonly used market: the taxi market … in Lima, Peru. Examining the entire path of negotiation we find that men face higher initial prices and rejection rates … inferior treatment of men we conduct an experiment where passengers send a signal on valuation before negotiating. The signal …
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Obesity is associated with serious health problems, and it can generate adverse economic outcomes. We analyze a nationally-representative sample of young American adults to investigate the interplay between obesity, wages and self-esteem. Wages can be impacted directly by obesity, and they can...
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India's male-biased sex ratio has worsened over the past several decades. In combination with the increased availability of prenatal sex-diagnostic technology, the declining fertility rate is a hypothesized factor. Suppose a couple strongly wants to have at least one son. At the natural sex...
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Substantial econometric efforts have been devoted to examining the impacts prices and tobacco control policies have on smoking propensity and intensity. However, little is known about the effects prices, smoking restrictions, and other influences have on smoking cessation. This paper uses...
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effects of overall and gender-specific economic shocks. We find only modest evidence of a link between overall economic … conditions and child maltreatment. However, analysis by gender reveals robust evidence that maltreatment decreases with …
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In contrast to less-skilled men, less-skilled women have experienced growing labor force involvement and moderate wage … less-skilled men, they experienced deteriorating returns to education but, unlike the men, they benefited from a growing …, while the returns to experience have declined among less-skilled men. The negative effect of children and marital status on …
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behavioral and academic outcomes is driven by gender gaps at the extremes of the outcome distribution. Using unconditional … distribution where the gender gaps are most pronounced. Accounting for the disproportionate effects of family environment on boys … at the tails substantially narrows the gender gap in high school dropout …
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