Too many men, too short lives: The effect of the male-biased sex ratio on mortality

Using a natural experiment in Taiwan, this paper shows that exposure to male-biased sex ratios at the marriageable ages is associated with a greater likelihood of death in later life. Half a million soldiers from Mainland China who retreated to Taiwan after a civil war in the late 1940s were subject...

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Autores principales: Chang, Simon, Kan, Kamhon, Zhang, Xiaobo
Formato: Artículo preliminar
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Institute of Labor Economics 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143632

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