Do Alcohol and Lead Change the Sex Ratio
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Heather Dickinson; Louise Parker
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Article
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1994
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Elsevier Science
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English
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It has been suggested that exposure to alcohol and lead may decrease testosterone levels in men which in turn may lead to an increase in the proportion of girls among their offspring. This hypothesis is tested on a new dataset of 268109 children born in Cumbria from 1950-89. From fathers' occupation