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Too Many Men, Too-Short Lives

The Effect of the Male-Biased Sex Ratio on Mortality

View ORCID ProfileSimon Chang, View ORCID ProfileKamhon Kan and View ORCID ProfileXiaobo Zhang
Journal of Human Resources, March 2024, 59 (2) 604-626; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0420-10845R3
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Simon Chang is a senior lecturer at the University of Western Australia, a research fellow at Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) and a fellow at Global Labor Organization (GLO).
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Kamhon Kan is a research fellow at the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica.
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Xiaobo Zhang is a chair professor at Guanghua School of Management at Peking University and senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) ().
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