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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| Format: | Artículo preliminar |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Institute of Labor Economics
2020
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143632 |
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