Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/43340 
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Year of Publication: 
2007
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UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP07/15
Publisher: 
University College Dublin, UCD School of Economics, Dublin
Abstract: 
In a 2005 paper Kanezawa proposed a generalisation of the classic Trivers-Willard hypothesis. It was argued that as a result taller and heavier parents should have more sons relative to daughters. Using two British cohort studies, evidence was presented which was partly consistent with the hypothesis. I analyse the relationship between an individual being male and their parents' height and weight using one of the datasets. No evidence of any such relationship is found.
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Working Paper

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