Long-term consequences of birth in an ‘unlucky’ year: evidence from Japanese women born in 1966

Satoshi Shimizutani; Hiroyuki Yamada

doi:10.1080/13504851.2014.916377

Long-term consequences of birth in an ‘unlucky’ year: evidence from Japanese women born in 1966

Satoshi Shimizutani, Hiroyuki Yamada

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Abstract

This article explores the long-term consequence of a prevailing superstition regarding women who were born in 1966, a year of the fire horse, who were around 44 years of age in 2010. The findings indicate that ‘fire horse women’ are disadvantaged in some aspects such as divorce rates, educational attainment and their own and household level income, suggesting discrimination against fire horse women as a result of the superstition.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1174-1178
Number of pages	5
Journal	Applied Economics Letters
Volume	21
Issue number	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2014.916377
Publication status	Published - 2014 Nov 2
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

cohort
fire horse
gender
marriage
superstition

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Economics and Econometrics

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