Steve Levitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 4148193 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steve Levitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steve |
| FAMILY NAME | Levitt |
| SIGNATURE | LEVITT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
China’s Missing Girls in the Three Decades from 1980 to 2010
Sex Ratios and Crime:Evidence from China's One-Child Policy * Sex ratios (males to females) rose markedly in China in the last two decades, and crime rates nearly doubled.This paper examines whether the two are causally linked.High sex ratios imply fewer married men, and marriage has been conjectured to be a socializing force.Our paper exploits the quasi-natural experiment generated by the Chinese one-child policy, a policy which is widely held t…
China’s Missing Girls in the Three Decades from 1980 to 2010
Sex Ratios and Crime:Evidence from China's One-Child Policy * Sex ratios (males to females) rose markedly in China in the last two decades, and crime rates nearly doubled.This paper examines whether the two are causally linked.High sex ratios imply fewer married men, and marriage has been conjectured to be a socializing force.Our paper exploits the quasi-natural experiment generated by the Chinese one-child policy, a policy which is widely held t…
China’s Missing Girls in the Three Decades from 1980 to 2010
Sex Ratios and Crime:Evidence from China's One-Child Policy * Sex ratios (males to females) rose markedly in China in the last two decades, and crime rates nearly doubled.This paper examines whether the two are causally linked.High sex ratios imply fewer married men, and marriage has been conjectured to be a socializing force.Our paper exploits the quasi-natural experiment generated by the Chinese one-child policy, a policy which is widely held t…
Archaeology (1 work) · China (1 work) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (1 work) · Demography (1 work) · Demography (1 work) · Geography (1 work) · Global Maternal and Child Health (1 work) · History (1 work) · History (1 work) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (1 work)