Tag: hepatitis b

13 May 2008

Emily Oster on Herself on Hep B and Sex Ratios: I Was Wrong

Hail Emily Oster!
The paper is titled “Hepatitis B Does Not Explain Male-Biased Sex Ratios in China”; here is the abstract:
Earlier work (Oster, 2005) has argued, based on existing medical literature and analysis of cross country data and vaccination programs, that parents who are carriers of hepatitis B have a higher offspring sex ratio (more boys) [...]