Recent research argues that discriminatory practices unduly inflated female excess mortality
during infancy and childhood in historical Europe. This article reviews the existing evidence …

Public social responsibility includes the implementation of policies to reduce gender
differences in employment. This responsibility is even more essential in rural areas facing …

Background Differential sex child mortality is an important indicator of gender‐based
discrimination. Decentralization refers to the distribution of power from the federal to the …

This study examines the changes over time of the twinning rate and infant and child mortality
across 17 rural villages in the province of Zaragoza (Spain) over a span of 200 years. The …

Based on longitudinal micro data from 13 Spanish rural villages between 1800 and 1910,
this paper assesses whether discriminatory practices affected fertility and sex-specific …

Based on longitudinal micro data from 13 Spanish rural villages between 1800 and 1910,
this paper assesses whether discriminatory practices affected fertility and sex-specific …

This dissertation investigates the possibility of excess female mortality, which could be
interpreted as sex-selective neglect, unequal allocation of resources or infanticide of …

Recent historiography has highlighted the possibility of gender discrimination in early life in
historical Europe. This practice may have resulted either in female over-mortality or under …

My thesis addresses several questions which relate to the link between demography and
economics. The first set of questions relates to the topic of famine. I ask if pre-famine …