Wednesday, May 25, 2005

An economics detective story.

Absolutely fascinating and compellingly intertwined piece from Slate. (Credit to Volokh, where I first saw this here.)

The Search for 100 Million Missing Women

This article is interesting enough on its face - the story of how an economist is using data to "find" about 50MM of Amartya Sen's 100MM 'missing women' in southeast Asia. But, it takes an almost surreal twist at the end when the demographic study intertwines with an earlier phsycological study of toddlers - it gets wild.

This is great stuff - intersting and informative, and a story that is almost too good to believe. Read this, and tell me you don't double take at the last paragraph...

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