War, Marriage Markets, and the Sex Ratio at Birth
- Authors
- Bethmann, Dirk; Kvasnicka, Michael
- Issue Date
- 7월-2014
- Publisher
- WILEY
- Keywords
- Marriage markets; sex ratio at birth; World War II
- Citation
- SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, v.116, no.3, pp.859 - 877
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- Journal Title
- SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
- Volume
- 116
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- 859
- End Page
- 877
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/98163
- DOI
- 10.1111/sjoe.12065
- ISSN
- 0347-0520
- Abstract
- In belligerent countries, male-to-female sex ratios at birth increased during and shortly after the two world wars. These rises occurred amidst dramatically changed marriage-market conditions caused by war-related declines in adult sex ratios, and still defy explanation. Based on county-level census data for the German state of Bavaria in the years just before and immediately after World War II, we explore the reduced-form relationship between changes in marriage-market tightness (the adult sex ratio) and changes in the offspring sex ratio, and we discuss potential mechanisms that might link the two. Our results suggest that war-induced shortfalls of men significantly increased the percentage of boys among newborns.
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