Hepatitis B does not explain male-biased sex ratios in China

Emily Oster, Gang Chen, Xinsen Yu and Wenyao Lin

Economics Letters, 2010, vol. 107, issue 2, 142-144

Abstract: Oster (2005) argued that parents with Hepatitis B (HBV) have more sons, which explained Asia's "missing women". Lin and Luoh (2008) show no relationship between gender and mother's HBV. We test for a relationship between paternal HBV and son share and find none.

Keywords: Missing; women; Hepatitis; B; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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