L Edlund… - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2002 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract The last three decades have witnessed the rise of a pohtical gender gap in the
United States wherein more women than men favor the Democratic party. We trace this
development to the decline in marriage, which we posit has made men richer and women ...
L Edlund… - Journal of Political Economy, 2002 - JSTOR
Prostitution is low‐skill, labor intensive, female, and well paid. This paper proposes a
marriage market explanation to this puzzle. If a prostitute compromises her marriage market
prospects, she will have to be compensated for forgone marriage market opportunities. ...
L Edlund - Journal of Political Economy, 1999 - JSTOR
Preference for sons over daughters is widespread in many Asian countries, for example,
India, China, and South Korea. This paper models endogenous sex choice and shows that
unbalanced sex ratios are but one of several possible consequences of a preference for ...
D Almond, L Edlund… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2009 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract We use prenatal exposure to Chernobyl fallout in Sweden as a natural experiment
inducing variation in cognitive ability. Students born in regions of Sweden with higher fallout
performed worse in secondary school, in mathematics in particular. Damage is ...
D Almond, L Edlund, H Li… - 2007 - nber.org
This paper estimates the effects of maternal malnutrition exploiting the 1959-1961 Chinese
famine as a natural experiment. In the 1% sample of the 2000 Chinese Census, we find that
fetal exposure to acute maternal malnutrition had compromised a range of socioeconomic ...
L Edlund - Journal of Political Economy, 2000 - JSTOR
In a recent paper, Rao (1993) advanced a marriage squeeze explanation to the secular rise
in real dowries, so‐called dowry inflation, witnessed in India. Arguing that the relevant ages
with respect to marriage are 10–19 for women and 20–29 for men, Rao found that the ratio ...
L Edlund - The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Throughout the industrialized world, young women outnumber young men in urban areas.
This paper proposes that such a pattern may be linked to higher male incomes in urban
areas. The argument is that urban areas offer skilled workers better labor markets. ...
D Almond… - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Abstract We document male-biased sex ratios among US-born children of Chinese, Korean,
and Asian Indian parents in the 2000 US Census. This male bias is particularly evident for
third children: If there was no previous son, sons outnumbered daughters by 50%. By ...
L Edlund, H Li, J Yi… - IZA DP, 2007 - nber.org
Abstract Sex ratios (males to females) rose markedly in China in the last two decades, and
crime rates nearly doubled. This paper examines whether the two are causally linked. High
sex ratios imply fewer married men, and marriage has been conjectured to be a ...
[CITATION] Dear son-expensive daughter: Do scarce women pay to marry?
L Edlund - manuscript, Columbia University, 2001
L Edlund… - Unpublished Manuscript, …, 2004 - jagiellonia.econ.columbia.edu
Abstract This paper argues that love–as opposed to arranged–marriage promotes growth.
Men pay for marriage, but who receives and pays the bride-price differs between the two
marriage institutions. Typically, under love marriage the groom pays his bride, while under ...
L Edlund… - CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5474, 2006 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Marrying individuals' consent has been requirement for marriage in Europe since
the Middle Ages-in most of the rest of the world parental consent reigned until at least until
the 1950s. This paper investigates the role of consent in marriage for intra-household ...
L Edlund… - 2007 - nber.org
The extent of and changes in inter-generational mobility of wealth are central to
understanding dynamics of wealth inequality but hard to measure. Using estate tax returns
data, we observe that the share of women among the very wealthy (top 0.01%) in the ...
L Edlund, L Haider… - Journal of the European …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Political survey data for nine West European countries show that women have
become increasingly left-wing compared to men, and that this trend is positively correlated
with the rise of nonmarriage in these countries. This pattern is mirrored in German ...
L Edlund - CESifo Economic Studies, 2006 - CESifo Group
Abstract If they existed, markets for sex and markets for children would share a common
feature: women sell and men demand. No society allows the trade in children, instead we
have marriage. This article discusses biological and legal aspects of reproduction, and ...
L Edlund, H Li, J Yi… - 2008 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Crime rates almost doubled in China between 1992 and 2004. Over the same
period, sex ratios (males to females) in the crime-prone ages of 16-25 years rose sharply,
from 1.053 to 1.093. Although scarcity of females is commonly believed to be a source of ...
D Almond, L Edlund,
K Milligan… - 2009 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Sex ratios at birth are above the biologically normal level in a number of Asian
countries, notably India and China. Standard explanations include poverty and a cultural
emphasis on male offspring. We study Asian immigrants to Canada using Census data, ...
L Edlund - Unpublished draft. Columbia University, 2005 - jagiellonia.econ.columbia.edu
Abstract This paper presents a theory of formal marriage based on its role in assigning
paternity and custodial rights. Family law provides the key ingredients:(i) an unmarried
mother is by default a child's sole known parent and its only custodian;(ii) a married ...
[CITATION] Custodial Rights and the Rise in Out-of-wedlock Fertility
L Edlund - Manuscript. Stockholm: Stockholm School Econ, 1998
L Edlund, J Engelberg… - Columbia University …, 2009 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Edlund and Korn [2002](EK) proposed that prostitutes are well paid and that the
wage premium reflects foregone marriage market opportunities. However, studies of street
prostitution in the US have revealed only modest wages and considerable risks of disease ...
L Edlund - Journal of the European Economic Association, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The rise in dowry payments in India has been taken as evidence that women
increasingly are at a disadvantage on the marriage market and must pay for marriage.
Moreover, high dowries, it is argued, add to the plight of parents of daughters and have ...
L Edlund… - UCL and Columbia University, 2005 - cepr.org
Abstract The nuclear family has long characterized the European family. In Asia, by contrast,
the extended family has been the norm. A potentially important difference between these
family forms is the allocation of headship: vested in a child's father in the nuclear family, ...
L Edlund - 1996 - hhs.diva-portal.org
Abstract Preference for sons is widespread in India and China. Modern technology allowing
prenatal sex determination considerably lowers the cost of choosing the sex of offspring.
This paper models endogenous sex-choice and shows that unbalanced sex ratios is but ...
[CITATION] Dowry to daughters: Theory and evidence
L Edlund - manuscript. New York: Columbia University, 1997
L Edlund… - Discussion Papers, 2009 - jagiellonia.econ.columbia.edu
Abstract Motivated by high and rising sex ratios in countries such as India and China, we
formulate a theoretical framework for analyzing the impact of economic development on
parental sex choice when sons are culturally prized and children provide old age support. ...
D Almond, L Edlund… - 2009 - nber.org
Sex ratios at birth are above the biologically normal level in a number of Asian countries,
notably India and China. Standard explanations include poverty and a cultural emphasis on
male offspring. We study Asian immigrants to Canada using Census data, focussing on ...
L Edlund… - … , Quarterly Journal of …, 2000 - academiccommons.columbia.edu
Abstract The last three decades have witnessed the rise of a political gender gap in the
United States wherein more women than men favor the Democratic party. We trace this
development to the decline in marriage, which we posit has made men richer and women ...
[CITATION] R. Pande (2005),“Unmarried Parenthood and Redistributive Politics,”
L Edlund… - Journal of the European Economic Association
L Edlund… - 2009 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Women s economic emancipation arguably took off in the late 1960s and early
1970s. While ubiquitous, its origins are not well understood. In an influential paper, Goldin
and Katz [2002] pointed to the role of unmarried women s access to the oral contraceptive ...
[CITATION] Selected sons and dejected daughters: Sex and status
L Edlund - Stockholm School of Economics, 1998
[CITATION] Trivers-Willard at birth and one year: evidence from US
D Almond… - 2007
L Edlund… - 2006 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Why are we not hermaphrodites? This paper argues that while hermaphroditism is
an efficient means by which genes may propagate themselves, inherent tendencies towards
polygyny undermine its stability. Understanding the forces that have established a ...
[CITATION] 2oo1, WDear son Y expensive daughter: Do scarce women pay to marry
L Edlund - X Unpub lished
[CITATION] Market Fragmentation and Rural Industrialization in the People's Republic of China: A Survey of Rural Enterprises in Zhejiang and Sichuan
L Edlund - Twenty-seventh International Geographical Congress, …, 1992
[CITATION] „Dear Son-Expensive Daughter: Why Do Scarce Women Pay to Marry?‟ Columbia University, Department of Economics
L Edlund - 2001 - Working Paper
[CITATION] Long-Term Effects of Early-Life Development: Evidence from the 1959 to 1961 Chinese Famine
D Almond, L Edlund, H Li… - 2010 - … in East Asia, Chicago: University of …
L Edlund - 1997 - swopec.hhs.se
Abstract: In a recent paper Rao (1993) proposed that scarcity of men (marriage squeeze)
could drive rising dowries in India. This paper shows, using the same data, that his marriage
squeeze variable fails to be significant in replication of the dowry function as well as in ...
L Edlund - Columbia University manuscript, 2000 - fmwww.bc.edu
Abstract Young women go to prosperous areas, leaving economically backward places with
a deficit of fertile women. This phenomenon is common throughout the developed world.
The proposed reason is that women have two sources of income men and employment- ...
[CITATION] VSon Preference and the Persistence of Culture: Evidence from Asian Immigrants to Canada
D Almond, L Edlund… - 2009 - V NBER Working paper 15391
D Almond, L Edlund, H Li… - NBER Chapters, 2010 - nber.org
Abstract This paper estimates the effects of maternal stress and malnutrition using the 1959-
1961 Chinese famine as a natural experiment. Observed forty years later in the 2000 China
Census (1% sample), Famine survivors showed impaired literacy, labor market, wealth, ...
[CITATION] An economic theory of prostitution
L Edlund… - 2000 - Wirtschaftswiss. Seminar, Eberhard- …
[CITATION] The Power of “I Do”–Individual vs. Parental Consent in Marriage
L Edlund… - 2004
L Edlund, L Haider… - 2002 - piketty.pse.ens.fr
Abstract Over the last three decades, a significant political gender gap has emerged in
Europe wherein more women than men favor the political left. This paper uses data from
nine European countries to examine the role of different forms of non-marriage in driving ...
E Korn… - Marburg Working Papers on Economics, 2006 - ideas.repec.org
Why are we not hermaphrodites? This paper argues that while hermaphroditism is an
e±cient means by which genes may propagate themselves, inherent tendencies towards
polygyny undermine its stabil-ity. Understanding the forces that have established a ...
L Edlund, H Li, J Yi… - 2010 - empac.ucsd.edu
Abstract Sex ratios at birth in China rose sharply in the 1980s and 1990s, setting the stage
for an unprecedented social experiment. We focus on the effect of surplus men on crime.
Between 1988 and 2004 crime rates nearly doubled. Using annual province-level data, ...
LC Edlund, L Haider… - 2004 - cepr.org
DP4478 Unmarried Parenthood and Redistributive Politics. ...
D Almond, L Edlund… - 2010 - faculty.arts.ubc.ca
Abstract What determines the preference for sons evident in abnormal sex ratios at birth in
countries such as India and China? Is the son preference just a reflection of the prevailing
economic environment, notably poverty, few economic opportunities for women, and ...
G Jasso, M Niederle, M Tertilt, D Moore… - meyersson.com
In order to address the specific issues that affect women and families in countries
undergoing political, economic and social transition, the Center on Democracy,
Development and the Rule of Law at the Stanford Institute for International Studies is ...
[CITATION] Chernobyl's legacy: Prenatal exposure to radioactive fallout and school outcomes in Sweden
D Almond, L Edlund… - 2007
M Anderson, S Anderson, A Ashworth-Hill… - Population …, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
ISSN 0032-4728 print/ISSN 1477-4747 online/03/010003-02 © 2003 Population Investigation
Committee DOI: 10.1080/0032472032000061686 ... Referees of papers submitted in 2001 and
2002 ... The editors of Population Studies wish to thank the following for refereeing ...
LC Edlund… - 2009 - cepr.org
DP7485 Marriage and Emancipation in The Age of The Pill. Author(s ...
[CITATION] The Importance of Being Married: Political Evidence from Nine West European Countries
L Edlund, L Haider… - 2003
L Edlund… - Journal of theoretical biology, 2008 - cat.inist.fr
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[CITATION] The State and the Family–Does Marriage Matter? Evidence from Western Europe
L Edlund, L Haider… - 2003
L Edlund, L Haider… - Marriage, 2002 - Citeseer
Abstract We document the emergence of a political gender gap over the last three decades
in nine Western European countries, wherein relative to men a higher proportion of women
favor the political left. We show that the rise in non-marriage, both as measured by ...
LC Edlund… - 2006 - cepr.org
DP5474 Individual vs. Parental Consent in Marriage: Implications for
Intra-Household Resource Allocation and Growth. Author(s ...
D Almond, L Edlund… - National Bureau of Economic Research, 2007 - eric.ed.gov
Abstract: Japanese atomic bomb survivors irradiated 8-25 weeks after ovulation
subsequently suffered reduced IQ [Otake and Schull, 1998]. Whether these findings
generalize to low doses (less than 10 mGy) has not been established. This paper exploits ...
E Korn… - Marburg Working Papers on Economics, 2006 - ideas.repec.org
Male and female social roles are largely predicated on the fact that male and female
reproductive functions are separated in different individuals. This paper asks why
gonochorism rather than hermaphroditism, is the rule among vertebrates. We argue that ...
L Edlund, H Li, J Yi… - econstor.eu
Zusammenfassung: Sex ratios (males to females) rose markedly in China in the last two
decades, and crime rates nearly doubled. This paper examines whether the two are causally
linked. High sex ratios imply fewer married men, and marriage has been conjectured to be ...
D Almond, L Edlund… - 2009 - econ.ubc.ca
Abstract Sex ratios at birth are above the biological norm in a number of Asian countries.
Many factors (eg China's one child policy, poverty, dowry payments) are believed to have
contributed to the observed son preference. Absent these factors, would there be a ...
L Edlund… - 2007 - 134.245.92.14
L Edlund… - The American economic review, 2009 - cat.inist.fr
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