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The Missing Men

World War I and Female Labor Force Participation

Jörn Boehnke and View ORCID ProfileVictor Gay
Journal of Human Resources, July 2022, 57 (4) 1209-1241; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.57.4.0419-10151R1
Jörn Boehnke
Jörn Boehnke is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis, CA and an associate research scholar in the Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
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Victor Gay is an assistant professor of economics at the Toulouse School of Economics and a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, University of Toulouse Capitole, Toulouse, France.
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vol. 57 no. 4 1209-1241
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https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.57.4.0419-10151R1
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University of Wisconsin Press
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0022-166X
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1548-8004
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  • Received April 1, 2019
  • Accepted May 1, 2020
  • Published online June 17, 2022.

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  1. Jörn Boehnke and
  2. Victor Gay
  1. Jörn Boehnke is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis, CA and an associate research scholar in the Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
  2. Victor Gay is an assistant professor of economics at the Toulouse School of Economics and a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, University of Toulouse Capitole, Toulouse, France.
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