This paper studies the properties of the sex ratio in two-period models of threshold (e.g., polygenic or temperature-dependent) sex determination under heavy-tailedness in the framework of possibly skewed stable distributions and their convolutions. We show that if the initial distribution of...

We obtain estimates for the best constant in the Rosenthal inequality for independent random variables [xi]1,...,[xi]n with l zero first odd moments, l[greater-or-equal, slanted]1. The estimates are sharp in the extremal cases l=1 and l=m, that is, in the cases of random variables with zero mean...