It’s Raining Men! Hallelujah? The Long-Run Consequences of Male-Biased Sex Ratios

Grosjean, Pauline; Khattar, Rose

doi:10.1093/restud/rdy025

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It’s Raining Men! Hallelujah? The Long-Run Consequences of Male-Biased Sex Ratios

Published in The Review of Economic Studies • May 21, 2018

Authors:

Pauline Grosjean

Rose Khattar

Abstract

We document the short- and long-run effects of male-biased sex ratios. We exploit a natural historical experiment where large numbers of male convicts and far fewer female convicts were sent to Australia in the 18th and 19th centuries. In areas with more male-biased sex ratios, women were historical...

Subject

Natural experiment

Persistence (discontinuity)

Demographic economics

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