Can economic stress affect secondary sex ratio in Poland?

Anthropological Review

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 15-27

  Żądzińska, Elżbieta ^a   Rosset, Iwona ^a   Domański, Czesław ^a   Pawłowski, Bogusław ^b,c   Mikulec, Artur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF ANTHROPOLOGY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

Author keywords

human sex ratio; proportion of male live births; SSR; total private consumption

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957929193     PISSN: 18986773     EISSN: 20834594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10044-008-0005-5     Document Type: Article

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