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Archive Home > 2008 > October > 02 > Bad economy means fewer boys

Bad economy means fewer boys

By Susan Brink / The Bulletin
October 2, 2008

Hard times are especially hard on pregnant women. Miscarriages go up, as do premature births. The result: fewer baby boys.

Economist Ralph Catalano, professor at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, showed that for the first time in a 2003 paper in the journal....

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