Analyzing the Human Sex Ratio at Birth

dc.contributor.advisor	Rodgers, Joseph
dc.contributor.author	Ferrell, Brandon
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Terry, Robert
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Day, Eric
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Devenport, Lynn
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Anderson, K.G.
dc.date.accessioned	2013-12-16T16:30:46Z
dc.date.available	2013-12-16T16:30:46Z
dc.date.issued	2013-12-13
dc.date.manuscript	2013-12-13
dc.description.abstract	The effect of income, education, employment, marital status, age, race, birth order, and national economic conditions on the sex ratio at birth were analyzed for the N = 21,597 children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 participants. These data were analyzed for individual births using a logistic regression model, treating the sex of each child as the outcome variable, and were analyzed for families using a linear regression model, treating the proportion of male children in each family as the outcome variable. No variable was statistically significantly related to the sex ratio. These findings suggest that the sex ratio at birth may not be affected by the individual- and population-level factors commonly examined in past research.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11244/7903
dc.language	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	Psychology, Psychometrics.	en_US
dc.thesis.degree	Ph.D.	en_US
dc.title	Analyzing the Human Sex Ratio at Birth	en_US
ou.group	College of Arts and Sciences