Exploring the causal machinery behind sex ratios at birth: Does hepatitis B play a role?

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-21

  Hamoudi, Amar ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; HEPATITIS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; SEX RATIO;

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; GENDER IDENTITY; HEPATITIS B; HISTORY; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESS; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS;

CAUSALITY; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; GENDER IDENTITY; HEPATITIS B; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 77957803249     PISSN: 00130079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/655454     Document Type: Article

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