A Book I Was Proud to Blurb: Unnatural Selection
The subtitle is Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men. The book is forthcoming, and the author is Mara Hvistendahl, who was a very good research assistant of mine some...
View ArticleJacky Kaba Keeps Writing Interesting Papers on Race
I blogged a few years ago about Amadu Jacky Kaba under the headline “A Scholar to Keep Your Eye On”: Amadu Jacky Kaba is a Liberian-born striver who first came to Seton Hall University as a basketball...
View ArticleAnother Explanation for Sex Selection in China?
In a podcast called “Misadventures in Baby-Making,” we explored China’s one-child policy as a cause of sex-selective abortion and, therefore, skewed male-female sex rations. A new working paper...
View ArticleDo Baby Girls Cause Divorce? A New Freakonomics Radio Podcast
(Photo: Marie Smith) Our latest Freakonomics Radio podcast is called “Do Baby Girls Cause Divorce?” (You can subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or listen via the media player above. You can also...
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