Economic stress or random variation? Revisiting German reunification as a natural experiment to investigate the effect of economic contraction on sex ratios at birth

BACKGROUND: The economic stress hypothesis (ESH) predicts decreases in the sex ratio at birth (SRB) following economic decline. However, as many factors influence the SRB, this hypothesis is difficult to test empirically. Thus, researchers make use of quasi-experiments such as German reunification:...

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Autores principales: Schnettler, Sebastian, Klüsener, Sebastian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
Materias:
Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4391084/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25533777
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-069X-13-117

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4391084/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25533777
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-069X-13-117

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