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Title: Does Having Boys (or Girls) "Run in the Family"?
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Rodgers, Joseph Lee |
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Does Having Boys (or Girls) "Run in the Family"? Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Meetings, March 1997 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Demography; Family Studies; Fertility; Genetics; Pairs (also see Siblings); Sex Ratios; Siblings Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Many people believe that a tendency to have boys or girls rims in a family. But research in the statistical literature suggests that humans are notoriously bad at diagnosing random patterns. Are family sex composition patterns random or systematic? Three possible methodologies to detect such a bias are reviewed, including medical, demographic, and behavioral genetic studies. We use the last two strategies, along with the NLSY to study family patterns of sex composition. Our "Demographic Study" descriptively examines the sex composition patterns of the children born to the NLSY Youth through 1994 (when this sample is 29-36 years of age). Our "Behavior Genetic Study" uses a recently developed kinship linking algorithm for the NLSY-Youth to account for whether the sex ratios of children born to NLSY respondents are more similar among more highly related kinship pairs. |
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Rodgers, Joseph Lee. "Does Having Boys (or Girls) "Run in the Family"?" Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Meetings, March 1997. |