Death, sex, and fertility: female infanticide in rural Spain, 1750–1950
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Abstract Relying on longitudinal micro data from rural Spain between 1750 and 1950, this article evidences that families mortally neglected a significant fraction of their female babies. Firstly, baptism records exhibited exceptionally high sex ratios at birth until the late nineteenth century. Secondly, having no previous male siblings increased probability baptisms. Likewise, same feature, together with number alive, also mortality during first day life. These findings are concentrated higher parities among landless semi-landless families. Lastly, under-registration cannot explain these patterns affecting shortly after birth.
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عنوان ژورنال: European Review of Economic History
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1474-0044', '1361-4916']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/heab023