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38 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13885
Consequences of War: Japan's Demographic Transition and the Marriage Market
Kota Ogasawara, Mizuki Komura
forthcoming in: Journal of Population Economics, 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13694
Protecting Girls from Droughts with Social Safety Nets
Jagori Chatterjee, Joshua D. Merfeld
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13217
More Choice for Men? Marriage Patterns after World War II in Italy
Erich Battistin, Sascha O. Becker, Luca Nunziata
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13162
Too Many Men, Too Short Lives: The Effect of the Male-Biased Sex Ratio on Mortality
Simon Chang, Kamhon Kan, Xiaobo Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12328
The Effects of Conflict on Fertility: Evidence from the Genocide in Rwanda
Kati Kraehnert, Tilman Brück, Michele Di Maio, Roberto Nistico
published in: Demography, 2019, 56 (3), 935-968
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11877
Marriage Market Signals and Homeownership for the Never Married
Kusum Mundra, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11846
The Betrayed Generation? Intra-Household Transfers and Retirement Behavior in South Korea
Kyeongkuk Kim, Sang-Hyop Lee, Timothy J. Halliday
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11531
Girls and Boys: Economic Crisis, Fertility, and Birth Outcomes
Soohyung Lee, Chiara Orsini
forthcoming in: Journal of Applied Econometrics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11464
Household Savings and Marriage Payments: Evidence from Dowry in India
S Anukriti, Sungoh Kwon, Nishith Prakash
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11463
Traditional Agricultural Practices and the Sex Ratio Today
Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano, Nathan Nunn
published in: PLoS ONE, January 2018, 13 (1), e0190510
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11276
Intertemporal Labor Supply: A Household Collective Approach
José Alberto Molina, J. Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, Jorge Velilla
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11175
Searching on Campus? Marriage Market Effects of the Student Gender Composition
Nico Pestel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10860
Does Daughter Deficit Promote Parental Substance Use? Longitudinal Evidence on Smoking from Rural China
Xi Chen
PAPER 1 (results on smoking) published as 'Do skewed sex ratios among children promote parental smoking? Longitudinal evidence from rural China' in: Journal of Substance Abuse, 2018, 23 (4), 366-370; PAPER 2 (results on alcohol abuse) published as 'Does daughter deficit promote paternal substance use? Evidence from China' in: Journal of Hospital Management and Health Policy, 2018, 2:47
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10617
Did the Great Recession Affect Sex Ratios at Birth for Groups with a Son Preference?
Soohyung Lee, Chiara Orsini
forthcoming in: Economics Letters
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10312
Marriage and Marriage Markets
Shoshana Grossbard
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10130
The Lasting Effect of Sex Ratio Imbalance on Marriage and Family: Evidence from World War II in Russia
Elizabeth Brainerd
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9933
Commuting Time and Sex Ratios in the US
J. Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina, Jorge Velilla
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9930
Property Rights and Gender Bias: Evidence from Land Reform in West Bengal
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Abhishek Chakravarty, Dilip Mookherjee, Francisco J. Pino
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11 (2), 295-237
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9746
China's Family Planning Policies and Their Labor Market Consequences
Fei Wang, Liqiu Zhao, Zhong Zhao
revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30(1), 31-68 [Details & Download]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9287
What Will You Do If I Say 'I Do'?: The Effect of the Sex Ratio on Time Use within Taiwanese Married Couples
Simon Chang, Rachel Connelly, Ping Ma
published in: Population Research and Policy Review, 2016, 35 (4), 471-500
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9214
The Competitive Earning Incentive for Sons: Evidence from Migration in China
Wenchao Li, Junjian Yi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9023
Political Aspirations in India: Evidence from Fertility Limits on Local Leaders
S Anukriti, Abhishek Chakravarty
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2019, 54 (1), 79-121
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8801
Criminalization of Homosexuality and Sex Ratios
Simon Chang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8728
Sex Ratios, Polygyny, and the Value of Women in Marriage: A Beckerian Approach
Shoshana Grossbard
published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2015, 81(1), 13-25
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8370
Same-Occupation Spouses: Preferences and Search Costs
Hani Mansour, Terra McKinnish
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8293
Girls for Sale? Child Sex Ratio and Girls Trafficking in India
Nishith Prakash, Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati
forthcoming in: Feminist Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8044
The Fertility-Sex Ratio Trade-off: Unintended Consequences of Financial Incentives
S Anukriti
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (2), 27-57
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7969
Tariffs, Social Status, and Gender in India
S Anukriti, Todd J. Kumler
published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2019, 67 (3), 687-724
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6647
Impact of Industrialization on Relative Female Survival: Evidence from Trade Policies
Tanika Chakraborty
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6458
Brides for Sale: Cross-Border Marriages and Female Immigration
Daiji Kawaguchi, Soohyung Lee
published in: Economic Inquiry, 55, 633-654.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5913
Relative Cohort Size, Relative Income, and Women's Labor Force Participation 1968-2010
Diane J. Macunovich
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5562
Prenatal Sex Selection and Girls' Well-Being: Evidence from India
Luojia Hu, Analia Schlosser
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5381
Where Have All the Young Girls Gone? Identification of Sex Selection in India
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Tom Cochrane
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5149
Estimating the Effect of the One-Child Policy on Sex Ratio Imbalance in China: Identification Based on the Difference-in-Differences
Hongbin Li, Junjian Yi, Junsen Zhang
published in: Demography, 2011, 48 (4), 1535-1557
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3539
Gender Differences and the Timing of First Marriages
Javier Díaz-Giménez, Eugenio Giolito
revised version published as 'Accounting for the Timing of First Marriage' in: International Economic Review, 2013, 54 (1), 135–158
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3214
Sex Ratios and Crime: Evidence from China’s One-Child Policy
Lena Edlund, Hongbin Li, Junjian Yi, Junsen Zhang
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95(5), 1520-1534.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2722
Cohort-Level Sex Ratio Effects on Women’s Labor Force Participation
Shoshana Grossbard, Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2007, 5 (3), 249-278
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1082
A Search Model of Marriage with Differential Fecundity
Eugenio Giolito
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