ECON 6280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sex Selection, Panel Data, Comparative Advantage
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Women who are not alive but should be. Human sex ration is approximately 1:1, sex ration at birth is assumed to be 105:100 or 1. 05: 1 to make up for the fact that adult males have higher death rates than females. The phenomenon already existed, but technology has exacerbated the problem. If you have hepatitis b, you have offspring sex ration of 1. 5 boy: 1 girl and the disease is common in many asian countries. Emily oster"s study of hepatitis b accounted for 45% of the missing women -> ming-jen lin and. Ming-ching luoh 2008 replicated the same study in the same area and found that hepatitis b explains only 0. 9%-1. 8% of missing women (oster only used 60,000 observations and survey unrepresentative sample) Jensen and oster 2009 effect of modern women image on attitudes using a 3-year individual level panel data set (able to see when cable tv was introduced to a village)
