How the dismal science applies to your life.

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• Maybe Parents Don't Like Boys Better A follow-up to the recent column about whether daughters cause divorce.
  Steven E. Landsburg Oct. 14, 2003
  
• Oh, No: It's a Girl! Do daughters cause divorce?
  Steven E. Landsburg Oct. 2, 2003
  
• Why Do Gays Smoke So Much? 
  Steven E. Landsburg Aug. 4, 2003
  
• Why Jews Don't Farm 
  Steven E. Landsburg June 13, 2003
  
• We Find Ourselves … Guilty Should we punish juries that get it wrong?
  Steven E. Landsburg May 19, 2003
  
• The Case for Looting 
  Steven E. Landsburg April 14, 2003
  
• Great Expectations? The war's going worse than expected. So what? Almost everything in life goes worse than expected.
  Steven E. Landsburg April 9, 2003
  
• Is Your Life Worth $10 Million? Nope. But your grandson's will be.
  Steven E. Landsburg March 3, 2003