The dark side of competition: Gender differences
The literature has placed great emphasis on the advantages of competition on market efficiency while ignoring the downside of competition on health. Using a natural experiment in Taiwan, we show that excessive competition comes at a health cost. In the late 1940s, half a million soldiers retreated t...
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| author | Chang, Simone Kan, Kamhon Zhang, Xiaobo |
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| description | The literature has placed great emphasis on the advantages of competition on market efficiency while ignoring the downside of competition on health. Using a natural experiment in Taiwan, we show that excessive competition comes at a health cost. In the late 1940s, half a million soldiers retreated to Taiwan from Mainland China after a civil war. They were initially not allowed to get married until the marriage ban was essentially lifted in 1959. As a large number of soldiers flooded the marriage market, men faced much stronger mating competition than before, which in turn increased the likelihood of male depression and mortality. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1483972025-11-06T07:07:16Z The dark side of competition: Gender differences Chang, Simone Kan, Kamhon Zhang, Xiaobo gender health markets marriage men mortality sex ratio governance The literature has placed great emphasis on the advantages of competition on market efficiency while ignoring the downside of competition on health. Using a natural experiment in Taiwan, we show that excessive competition comes at a health cost. In the late 1940s, half a million soldiers retreated to Taiwan from Mainland China after a civil war. They were initially not allowed to get married until the marriage ban was essentially lifted in 1959. As a large number of soldiers flooded the marriage market, men faced much stronger mating competition than before, which in turn increased the likelihood of male depression and mortality. 2016-12-16 2024-06-21T09:24:34Z 2024-06-21T09:24:34Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148397 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147474 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153954 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Chang, Simone; Kan, Kamhon; and Zhang, Xiaobo. 2016. The dark side of competition: Gender differences. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1585. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148397 |
| spellingShingle | gender health markets marriage men mortality sex ratio governance Chang, Simone Kan, Kamhon Zhang, Xiaobo The dark side of competition: Gender differences |
| title | The dark side of competition: Gender differences |
| title_full | The dark side of competition: Gender differences |
| title_fullStr | The dark side of competition: Gender differences |
| title_full_unstemmed | The dark side of competition: Gender differences |
| title_short | The dark side of competition: Gender differences |
| title_sort | dark side of competition gender differences |
| topic | gender health markets marriage men mortality sex ratio governance |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148397 |
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