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Gender Discrimination and the Sex Ratio of Immigrants,
Saul Lach and Nachum Sicherman, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2022)
Keywords: gender discrimination, sex-ratios, international migration

Changing Sex-Ratios Among Immigrant Communities in the USA,
Adriana Hernández Castañeda and Todd Sorensen, in Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy (2019)
Keywords: Immigration, Sex-ratios, Demographic change

Could changes in reported sex ratios at birth during China's 1958-1961 famine support the adaptive sex ratio adjustment hypothesis?,
Zhongwei Zhao, Yuan Zhu and Anna Reimondos, in Demographic Research (2013)
Keywords: China, famine, sex ratio at birth

Skewed Sex Ratios in India: “Physician, Heal Thyself”,
Archana Patel, Neetu Badhoniya, Manju Mamtani and Hemant Kulkarni, in Demography (2013)
Keywords: Gender, Sex ratio, Female, Prenatal diagnosis, Sex determination,

The Association of Sex Ratio on Suicide Rates in United States Counties: An Exploration of Mechanisms,
Kristin Snopkowski and Hallie Turner, in Social Sciences (2023)
Keywords: sex ratio; United States counties; suicide; marriage; operational sex ratio

Were there missing girls in Biscay? Sex ratios in Northern Spain, 1550-1899,
Elena Catalán Martínez, in Investigaciones de Historia Económica - Economic History Research (IHE-EHR), Journal of the Spanish Economic History Association (2023)
Keywords: Sex ratios at birth; Sex ratios in childhood; Gender discrimination; Foundings; Industrialisation.

Commuting Time and Sex Ratios in the US,
José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina and Jorge Velilla, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2016)
Keywords: commuting time, sex ratio, ATUS, gender gap, United States

Brood sex ratio in the Kentish plover,
Tamás Székely, Innes C. Cuthill, Stephen Yezerinac, Richard Griffiths and János Kis, in Behavioral Ecology (2004)
Keywords: Charadrius alexandrinus; Kentish plover; mating opportunities; parental care; seasonal trends; sex allocation; sex ratio

Gender inequality and the sex ratio in three emerging economies,
Prabir C. Bhattacharya, in Progress in Development Studies (2013)
Keywords: sex ratio; gender inequality; emerging economies; policy

Sex ratios and mental health: Evidence from China,
Kezhong Zhang, Fan He and Yuanyuan Ma, in Economics & Human Biology (2021)
Keywords: Sex ratios; Mental health; Instrumental variables; China;

Gender Inequality and the Sex Ratio in Three Emerging Economies,
Prabir C Bhattacharya, from Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) (2012)
Keywords: sex ratio, gender inequality, emerging economies, policy

Imbalanced Sex Ratios and Violent Victimization in Mexico,
Scott J. South, Soojin Han and Katherine Trent, in Population Research and Policy Review (2022)
Keywords: Sex ratio, Mexico, Crime, Violence, Victimization

Sex Ratios and Crime: Evidence from China,
Lena Edlund, Hongbin Li, Junjian Yi and Junsen Zhang, in The Review of Economics and Statistics (2013)
Keywords: sex ratios, crime, marriage market, China

Skewed Sex Ratios and Criminal Victimization in India,
Scott South, Katherine Trent and Sunita Bose, in Demography (2014)
Keywords: Sex ratio, India, Crime, Victimization, Sexual harassment,

CHINA’S IMBALANCED SEX RATIO AND SATISFACTION WITH MARRIAGE,
Zhiming Cheng and Russell Smyth, in The Singapore Economic Review (SER) (2017)
Keywords: China, assortative mating, sex ratio, marriage

Marrying Up: The Role of Sex Ratio in Assortative Matching,
Ran Abramitzky, Adeline Delavande and Luis Vasconcelos, from Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (2008)
Keywords: Marriage, sex ratio, assortative matching, social classes.

Marrying Up: The Role of Sex Ratio in Assortative Matching,
Ran Abramitzky, Adeline Delavande and Luis Vasconcelos, from Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (2010)
Keywords: Marriage, sex ratio, assortative matching, social classes

Changing Sex-Ratios among Immigrant Communities in the U.S,
Adriana Hernández Catañeda and Todd Sorensen, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2018)
Keywords: sex-ratios, demographic change, immigration

When investment backfires: Unbalanced sex ratios and mental health among boys in rural areas,
Hantao Wu and Ting Li, in Demographic Research (2022)
Keywords: sex ratio, depression

A spatially explicit model of sex ratio evolution in response to sex-biased dispersal,
Jean-Michel Guillon and Jean Bottein, in Theoretical Population Biology (2011)
Keywords: Sex ratio; Sex allocation; Dispersal; Sex-biased dispersal; Spatial heterogeneity; Kin competition;

Gender Imbalance: The Male/Female Sex Ratio Determination,
Yong Yoon, in Journal of Bioeconomics (2006)
Keywords: sex ratio at birth, fertility, rational choice, tragedy of the commons, optimal sex ratio, D10, D71, J10, J13, J18,

WAR, MARRIAGE MARKETS AND THE SEX RATIO AT BIRTH,
Dirk Bethmann and Michael Kvasnicka, from Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Faculty of Economics and Management (2011)
Keywords: World War II, Adult Sex Ratio, Marriage Markets, Sex Ratio at Birth

Declining Juvenile Sex Ratios,
Ravinder Kaur, in Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research (2007)
Keywords: JEL Classification:J1; JEL Classifi cation:I0; JEL Classification:Z1; Sex Ratio; Son-preference; Female Foeticide; Technology; Development; Economy

Adult sex ratio and operational sex ratio exhibit different temporal dynamics in the wild,
María Cristina Carmona-Isunza, Sergio Ancona, Tamás Székely, Alfonso P. Ramallo-González, Medardo Cruz-López, Martín Alejandro Serrano-Meneses and Clemens Küpper, in Behavioral Ecology (2017)
Keywords: adult sex ratio, mating system, operational sex ratio, social environment, temporal variation, within-season variation.

Natal habitat and sex-specific survival rates result in a male-biased adult sex ratio,
A H Jelle Loonstra, Mo A Verhoeven, Nathan R Senner, Jos C E W Hooijmeijer, Theunis Piersma and Rosemarie Kentie, in Behavioral Ecology (2019)
Keywords: adult sex ratio, hatching sex ratio, Limosa limosa limosa, mark-recapture, sex-specific survival

Sex-specific growth rates in zebra finch nestlings: a possible mechanism for sex ratio adjustment,
Thaís Lima Fernandes Martins, in Behavioral Ecology (2004)
Keywords: hand-rearing; sex allocation theory; sex-biased mortality; sex ratio; sex-specific growth rates; zebra finches

Recent trends in sex mortality ratios for adults in developed countries,
Ingrid Waldron, in Social Science & Medicine (1993)
Keywords: mortality trends sex mortality ratios sex differences gender differences

Sex Selection for Daughters: Demographic Consequences of Female-Biased Sex Ratios,
Martin Kolk and Karim Jebari, in Population Research and Policy Review (2022)
Keywords: Sex selection, Sex ratios, Assisted reproductive technology, Population growth, Son preference, Daughter preference

The neolithic revolution and contemporary sex ratios,
Per Fredriksson and Satyendra Gupta, in Economics Letters (2018)
Keywords: Agricultural transition; Neolithic revolution; Plough; Sex ratio; Gender bias; Historical persistence;

Fall in Sex Ratio: A National Shame,
Anwesha Sen, from eSocialSciences (2011)
Keywords: Census, Sex-ratio, Females, Foeticide, Child, India, public policy, females, maternal mortality

On Adverse Sex Ratios in Some Indian States,
Prabir C. Bhattacharya, in Indian Journal of Gender Studies (2012)
Keywords: Sex ratio; northeast India; older women; survival disadvantage

Divorce Laws, Sex Ratios and the Marriage Market,
Brishti Guha, from Singapore Management University, School of Economics (2012)
Keywords: Divorce, sex ratios, marriage market, imbalance, matching, non-transferable utility.

Sex Ratios, Divorce Laws and the Marriage Market,
Brishti Guha, from Singapore Management University, School of Economics (2010)
Keywords: Divorce, sex ratios, marriage, skewness, matching, non-transferable utility.

Population aging caused by a rise in the sex ratio at birth,
Zhen Zhang and Qiang Li, in Demographic Research (2020)
Keywords: sex ratio at birth, population aging, stable population, models

Child Underreporting, Fertility, and Sex Ratio Imbalance in China,
Daniel Goodkind, in Demography (2011)
Keywords: China, Fertility, Children, Sex ratios, Underreporting, One-child policy,

Traditional agricultural practices and the sex ratio today,
Paola Giuliano, Alberto Alesina and Nathan Nunn, from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2018)
Keywords: Sex ratio; Gender roles; Historical persistence; Cultural transmission

On Adverse Sex Ratios in Some Indian States: A Note,
Prabir C. Bhattacharya, from Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, Heriot Watt University (2009)
Keywords: sex ratio, northeast India, elderly women, survival disadvantage

Son preference, maternal care and sex ratios at birth,
Echávarri-Aguinaga, Rebeca and Beltrán Tapia, Francisco, from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2023)
Keywords: Sex ratio at birth; Son preference; Gender discrimination; Cultural change

Sex ratios and missing girls in late-19th-century Europe,
Francisco Beltrán Tapia, from European Historical Economics Society (EHES) (2019)
Keywords: Sex ratios, Infant and child mortality, Gender discrimination, Health

Traditional Agricultural Practices and the Sex Ratio Today,
Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano and Nathan Nunn, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2018)
Keywords: cultural transmission, gender roles, sex ratio, historical persistence

Changing Gender Preference in China Today: Implications for the Sex Ratio,
Zhou Chi, Zhou Xu Dong, Wang Xiao Lei, Zheng Wei Jun, Li Lu and Therese Hesketh, in Indian Journal of Gender Studies (2013)
Keywords: Son preference; sex ratio; China; policy

Working late: Do Workplace Sex Ratios Affect Partnership Formation and Dissolution?,
Michael Svarer, from Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University (2006)
Keywords: Partnership formation, dissolution, workplace sex ratios

Sex ratios and marital matching outcomes in the Chinese marriage market,
Yuxin Yao, Min Zhang and Yixian Li, in Economics Letters (2023)
Keywords: Sex ratios; Marital matching; Chinese economy;

Does sex-ratio indicate the extent of male preference?: A quest for better indicator,
Indervir Singh and Sarbjit Singh, from University Library of Munich, Germany (2009)
Keywords: Male preference, Sex-ratio, Fertility rate

Working Late: Do Workplace Sex Ratios Affect Partnership Formation and Dissolution?,
Michael Svarer, from University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics. Centre for Applied Microeconometrics (2006)
Keywords: partnership formation; dissolution; workplace sex ratios

Sex Ratio and Global Sodomy Law Reform in the Post-WWII Era,
Simon Chang, from Global Labor Organization (GLO) (2020)
Keywords: Sex Ratio, Sodomy Law, Gay Rights, Homophobia

Sex Ratio at Birth after Concurrent Events of Earthquakes and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Croatia,
Dario Pavić, in IJERPH (2024)
Keywords: sex ratio at birth; earthquake; COVID-19; Croatia; stress

Searching on campus? The marriage market effects of changing student sex ratios,
Nico Pestel, in Review of Economics of the Household (2021)
Keywords: Marriage markets, Sex ratio, Higher education, Germany

The sex ratio and global sodomy law reform in the post-WWII era,
Simon Chang, in Journal of Population Economics (2021)
Keywords: Sex ratio, Sodomy law, Gay rights, Homophobia

The Fertility-Sex Ratio Trade-off: Unintended Consequences of Financial Incentives,
S Anukriti, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2014)
Keywords: financial incentives, Haryana, India, fertility, sex ratio

Girls for Sale? Child Sex Ratio and Girls Trafficking in India,
Nishith Prakash and Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2014)
Keywords: girls trafficking, child sex ratio, India

The Fertility-Sex Ratio Tradeoff: Unintended Consequences of Financial Incentives,
S Anukriti, from Boston College Department of Economics (2013)
Keywords: Demographics, fertility, sex ratio, financial incentives, childbearing

The Effect of Age-Specific Sex Ratios on Crime: Instrumental Variable Estimates from India,
Rashmi Barua, Prarthna Goel and Renuka Sane, from National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (2017)
Keywords: Sex Ratio ; Crime ; Instrumental Variables

Skewed child sex ratios in India: a revisit to geographical patterns and socio-economic correlates,
Aradhana Kumari and Srinivas Goli, in Journal of Population Research (2022)
Keywords: Child sex ratio, Sex ratio at birth, Sex ratio at last birth, Son preference, India

How can economic schemes curtail the increasing sex ratio at birth in China?,
Debarun Bhattacharjya, Anant Sudarshan, Shripad Tuljapurkar, Ross Shachter and Marcus Feldman, in Demographic Research (2008)
Keywords: sex ratio at birth, son preference, sex selection, sex-selective potency, value of child

Sex ratios and the red dragon: using the Chinese Communist Revolution to explore the effect of the sex ratio on women and children in Taiwan,
Andrew Francis, in Journal of Population Economics (2011)
Keywords: Sex ratios, Marriage market, Intrahousehold bargaining, D13, J12, J13,

Evidence of Self-correction of Child Sex Ratios in India: A District-Level Analysis of Child Sex Ratios From 1981 to 2011,
Nadia Diamond-Smith and David Bishai, in Demography (2015)
Keywords: India, Child sex ratios, Fertility, Fixed-effects models,

Issue of Declining Child Sex Ratio,
Anonymous, from eSocialSciences (2013)
Keywords: Child Sex Ratio, Multi- Pronged Strategy, Pre-conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act in 1994, Pre-conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Rules, 1996, National Inspection and Monitoring Committee (NIMC), National Rural Health Mission(NRHM)

Evidence of adaptive intergenerational sex ratio adjustment in contemporary human populations,
Shige Song, in Theoretical Population Biology (2014)
Keywords: Adaptive sex ratio adjustment; Natural experiment; Sex ratio at birth; Humans; Difference-in-differences;

Regional Sex Ratio and the Dissolution of Relationships in Germany,
Monika Obersneider, Jan-Christoph Janssen and Michael Wagner, in European Journal of Population (2019)
Keywords: Sex ratio, Union dissolution, Divorce, Partner market, Multilevel event-history, pairfam

Exploring the Variations of the Sex Ratio at Birth from an Historical Perspective,
Francesco Scalone and Rosella Rettaroli, in Statistica (2015)
Keywords: Corrado Gini; sex ratio at birth; bio-demography; historical demography

Did the Great Recession affect sex ratios at birth for groups with a son preference?,
Soohyung Lee and Chiara Orsini, in Economics Letters (2017)
Keywords: Son preference; Great Recession; Missing Girls; Sex ratios; Fertility;

Did the Great Recession affect sex ratios at birth for groups with a son preference?,
Soohyung Lee and Chiara Orsini, from London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (2017)
Keywords: Son preference; Great Recession; Missing Girls; Sex ratios; Fertility

Sex Ratios, Polygyny, and the Value of Women in Marriage - A Beckerian Approach,
Shoshana Grossbard, in JODE - Journal of Demographic Economics (2015)
Keywords: Marriage, Economic analysis, Marriage market, Sex ratio, Polygamy, Brideprice, Dowry

Masculine sex ratios, population age structure and the potential spread of HIV in China,
M. Giovanna Merli and Sara Hertog, in Demographic Research (2010)
Keywords: HIV/AIDS, China, migration, modelling, sexual behavior, sex ratio

Variable-r in sex ratios: Formulas in honor of Jim Vaupel,
Vladimir Canudas-Romo, Wen Su and Mike Hollingshaus, in Demographic Research (2023)
Keywords: sex ratio, variable-r method, cohort analysis, growth rate

Sex ratio variation in the cooperatively breeding alpine marmot Marmota marmota,
Dominique Allainé, in Behavioral Ecology (2004)
Keywords: cooperative breeders; generalized linear models; Marmota marmota; sex ratio variation

Sex ratio and male sexual characters in a population of blue tits, Parus caeruleus,
A. Dreiss, M. Richard, F. Moyen, J. White, A.P. Møller and E. Danchin, in Behavioral Ecology (2006)
Keywords: dawn chorus; male song; Parus caeruleus; plumage color; sex ratio

Sex Ratio at Birth and Infant Mortality Rate in China: An Empirical Study,
Dejian Lai, in Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement (2005)
Keywords: China, infantmortality rate, sex ratio at birth, statistical analysis,

Skewed Sex Ratios at Birth and Future Marriage Squeeze in China and India, 2005–2100,
Christophe Guilmoto, in Demography (2012)
Keywords: China, India, Sex ratio at birth, Marriage simulation, Marriage squeeze,

The Long-Run Effects of Male-Biased Sex Ratios on Mateship and Social Capital,
Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Russell Smyth and Trong-Anh Trinh, from Monash University, Department of Economics (2024)
Keywords: sex ratios, gender norms, convicts, social capital, Australia

Cohort-Level Sex Ratio Effects on Women’s Labor Force Participation,
Shoshana Grossbard and Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2007)
Keywords: marriage markets, education, female labor force participation, sex ratios, cohorts

Sex Ratios and Crime: Evidence from China’s One-Child Policy,
Lena Edlund, Hongbin Li, Junjian Yi and Junsen Zhang, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2007)
Keywords: male-biased sex ratios, crime, one-child policy, China

Sex Ratios, Polygyny, and the Value of Women in Marriage: A Beckerian Approach,
Shoshana Grossbard, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2014)
Keywords: bride price, sex ratios, Gary Becker, economics of marriage, polygyny

Did the Great Recession Affect Sex Ratios at Birth for Groups with a Son Preference?,
Soohyung Lee and Chiara Orsini, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2017)
Keywords: missing girls, Great Recession, son preference, sex ratios, fertility

Offspring sex ratio in domestic goats: Trivers-Willard out of natural selection,
J. Polák, V. Mareš, R. Konrád and D. Frynta, in Czech Journal of Animal Science (2015)
Keywords: maternal age, parental investment, sex allocation, sex ratio manipulation, Trivers-Willard hypothesis, ungulates

Mating competition and adult sex ratio in wild Trinidadian guppies,
Pierre J C Chuard, James W A Grant and Grant E Brown, in Behavioral Ecology (2022)
Keywords: adult sex ratio, aggressiveness, mating competition, Poecilia reticulata, predation risk, sex role

Sex Ratio of Purple Lagoon Crabs Goniopsis Pelii (Herklots, 1851) from the Lagos Lagoon – Nigeria,
Nicholas Eteobong, Fola Mathews Omolara. O. and Kolawole Daniels Aghogho. O., in Academic Journal of Life Sciences (2017)
Keywords: Lagoon crab; Sex ratio; Lagos; Goniopsis pelii.

Frail Males on the American Frontier: The Role of Environmental Harshness on Sex Ratios at Birth across a Period of Rapid Industrialization,
Ryan Schacht, Mike Hollingshaus, Heidi Hanson, Shane J. Macfarlan, Douglas Tharp, Tim Bruckner and Ken R. Smith, in Social Sciences (2021)
Keywords: sex ratio; prenatal stress; environmental stressors

Adverse Outcome Pathway on Androgen receptor agonism leading to male-biased sex ratio,
Kelvin J. Santana Rodriguez, Daniel L. Villeneuve, Kathleen M. Jensen, Gerald T. Ankley and David H. Miller, from OECD Publishing (2023)
Keywords: androgen receptor, endocrine effects, fish, sex ratio

Adverse Outcome Pathway on Aromatase inhibition leading to male-biased sex ratio via impacts on gonad differentiation,
Kelvin J. Santana Rodriguez, Daniel L. Villeneuve, Kathleen M. Jensen, Gerald T. Ankley and David H. Miller, from OECD Publishing (2023)
Keywords: Aromatase, Endocrine effects, Fish, Sex ratio

Ramadan fasting, sex-ratio at birth, and birth weight: No effects on Muslim infants born in Germany,
Hendrik Jürges, in Economics Letters (2015)
Keywords: Fasting; Ramadan; Birth weight; Sex ratio;

The Sex Ratio and the Out-of-Wedlock Birth Rate in the United States during World War II,
Robert McCormick, Melissa Yeoh and Mason S. Gerety, in International Journal of Social Science Studies (2013)
Keywords: sex ratio, out-of-wedlock births, marriage, fertility

On the masculinization of population: The contribution of demographic development -- A look at sex ratios in Sweden over 250 years,
Thomas Spoorenberg, in Demographic Research (2016)
Keywords: sex ratio, population composition, demographic development

Do Skewed Sex Ratios Among Children Promote Parental Smoking? Longitudinal Evidence from Rural China,
Xi Chen, from Global Labor Organization (GLO) (2017)
Keywords: Sex Ratios, Marriage Market, Paternal Smoking, Stress

The Lasting Effect of Sex Ratio Imbalance on Marriage and Family: Evidence from World War II in Russia,
Elizabeth Brainerd, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2016)
Keywords: divorce law, fertility, family, marriage, sex ratios

Too Many Men, Too Short Lives: The Effect of the Male-Biased Sex Ratio on Mortality,
Simon Chang, Kamhon Kan and Xiaobo Zhang, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2020)
Keywords: marriage market, mortality, sex ratio, widowhood effect

Does the marriage market sex ratio affect parental sex selection? Evidence from the Chinese census,
Xing Li, M. W. Luke Chan, Byron Spencer and Wei Yang, in Journal of Population Economics (2016)
Keywords: Parental sex selection, Marriage squeeze, Marriage market sex ratio, Missing women

The Role of the Sex Imbalance in Shaping Marital Status,
Shannon Seitz and José-Víctor Ríos-Rull, from Society for Economic Dynamics (2004)
Keywords: Marriage, Divorce, Sex Ratio

The role of conflict in sex discrimination: The case of missing girls,
Astghik Mavisakalyan and Anna Minasyan, from Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC), Curtin Business School (2018)
Keywords: discrimination, sex ratios, conflict