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Too Many Men, Too-Short Lives: The Effect of the Male-Biased Sex Ratio on Mortality

Simon Chang, Kamhon Kan and Xiaobo Zhang
Published online before print November 15, 2021, 0420-10845R3; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0420-10845R3
Simon Chang
* 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
† Kamhon Kan is a research fellow at the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica.
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Xiaobo Zhang
‡ Xiaobo Zhang is a chair professor at Peking University and senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
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