The effects of China's universal two-child policy

Y Zeng, T Hesketh - The Lancet, 2016 - thelancet.com
Summary In October, 2015, China's one-child policy was replaced by a universal two-child
policy. The effects of the new policy are inevitably speculative, but predictions can be made …

Adult sex ratios: causes of variation and implications for animal and human societies

R Schacht, SR Beissinger, C Wedekind… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Converging lines of inquiry from across the social and biological sciences target the adult
sex ratio (ASR; the proportion of males in the adult population) as a fundamental population …

[BOOK][B] Of boys and men: Why the modern male is struggling, why it matters, and what to do about it

RV Reeves - 2022 - books.google.com
The book that Sparked a National Conversation Boys and men are struggling. Profound
economic and social changes of recent decades have many losing ground in the classroom …

Levels of well-being among men who are incel (involuntarily celibate)

W Costello, V Rolon, AG Thomas, D Schmitt - Evolutionary Psychological …, 2022 - Springer
Incels (involuntary celibates) are a subculture community of men who build their identity
around their perceived inability to form sexual or romantic relationships. To address the …

The local economic and welfare consequences of hydraulic fracturing

AW Bartik, J Currie, M Greenstone… - American Economic …, 2019 - aeaweb.org
Exploiting geological variation and timing in the initiation of hydraulic fracturing, we find that
fracking leads to sharp increases in oil and gas recovery and improvements in a wide set of …

The mating psychology of incels (involuntary celibates): Misfortunes, misperceptions, and misrepresentations

W Costello, V Rolon, AG Thomas… - The Journal of Sex …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Mating represents a suite of fundamental adaptive problems for humans. Yet a community of
men, called incels (involuntary celibates), forge their identity around their perceived inability …

Incel activity on social media linked to local mating ecology

RC Brooks, D Russo-Batterham… - Psychological …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Young men with few prospects of attracting a mate have historically threatened the internal
peace and stability of societies. In some contemporary societies, such involuntary celibate …

The declining labor market prospects of less-educated men

AJ Binder, J Bound - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2019 - aeaweb.org
Over the last half century, US wage growth stagnated, wage inequality rose, and the labor-
force participation rate of prime-age men steadily declined. In this article, we examine these …

[BOOK][B] The first political order: How sex shapes governance and national security worldwide

V Hudson, DL Bowen, PL Nielsen - 2020 - degruyter.com
Our analysis raises important questions for the academic fields of international relations and
security studies, especially in light of the fact that the US Department of Defense (DoD) paid …

Home ownership as status competition: Some theory and evidence

SJ Wei, X Zhang, Y Liu - Journal of Development Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
In this paper, we explore the implications of home ownership as a status good for housing
prices. More concretely, if a family's housing wealth relative to others is an important sorting …