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Note on the Takahashi effect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

William H. James
William H. James
Affiliation:
Galton Laboratory, University College London
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Extract

In England and Wales in 1938–68 the sex ratio of children liveborn or stillborn to women aged 45+ years was lower than the sex ratio among children born to women at any other age. This strengthens the suggestion that the high sex ratio reported by Takahashi among children born to elderly women in Japan is a spurious consequence of false registration.

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Research Article
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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , July 1972 , pp. 347 - 350
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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