The Social Security Administration computes individual pension benefits using the average survival in the population. However, less educated individuals, and those with lower lifetime incomes, have lower life expectancies than their more educated and richer counterparts. We investigate how...

Over the last several years highly accurate methods of gender selection before conception have been developed. Given that strong preferences for gender variety in offspring have been documented for the U.S. We move beyond bio-ethical and moral considerations and ask what the demographic...