Family Economics
Syllabus
Tuesday 3:30-5:20, 經會議室。
Reference Books
	Becker, Gary S. (1991), A Treatise on the Family, Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
	Rosenzweig, Mark R. and Oded Stark ed. (1997) Handbook of Population and Family Economics, Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Topics
	Introduction  Division of Labor Altruism Marriage Fertility Intergenerational Transfers and Mobility Bargaining and Resources Allocation
Becker-Posner Blog
常用實證資料庫
Interesting Links
	An Interview with Kevin Murphy
資料處理，例子一：91年榜單，例子二：93年家庭收支調查 ，例子三: 人力資源調查

Hepatitis B and Missing Women

• The Case of Asia's "Missing Women,"  Robert Barro, Business Week, 2/28/2005.
• Where are Asia's "Missing Women,"  Tyler Cowen, 2/19/2005.
• The Search for 100 Million Missing Women,  Dubner and Levitt, Slate, 5/24/2005.
• Hepatitis B and Missing Women,  Emily Oster, Journal of Political Economy, December, 2005.
• Explaining Asia's "Missing Women": A New Look at the Data, Monica Das Gupta, Population and Development Review, September 2005.
• Can Hepatitis B Mothers Account for the Number of Missing Women? Evidence from Three Millions Newborns in Taiwan, Ming-Jen Lin and Ming-Ching Luoh, November 2005.
• On Explaining Asia's "Missing Women": Comment on Das Gupta, Emily Oster,  Population and Development Review, June 2006.
• Cultural versus Biological Factors in Explaining Asia’s “Missing Women”: Response to Oster, Monica Das Gupta, Population and Development Review, June 2006.
• Hepatits B and Sex Ratios at Birth: Fathers or Mothers?, Baruch Blumberg and Emily Oster, March 2007.
• Hepatitis B Does Not Explain Male-Biased Sex Ratios in China, Emily Oster, April 2008.
• Hail Emily Oster, Tyler Cowen, 5/12/2008.
• Revisiting Hepatitis Theory on China’s ‘Missing Women’, World Street Journal, 5/21/2008.
• Economist Scraps Hepatitis Theory On China's 'Missing Women', World Street Journal, 5/22/2008.
• 中國“女性缺失”問題與乙肝病毒無關, 華爾街日報中文網路版, 5/22/2008.
•  An Academic Does the Right Thing, Stephen Levitt, 5/22/2008.