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Death, sex and fertility: Female infanticide in rural Spain, 1750-1950
Tapia, Francisco J. Beltrán; Marco-Gracia, Francisco J. - 2020
Relying on longitudinal micro data from a Spanish rural region between 1750 and 1950, this article evidences that families mortally neglected a significant fraction of their female babies. On the one hand, baptism records exhibit exceptionally high sex ratios at birth, especially during the 19th...
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Abandon et prise en charge des enfants en Afrique : une problématique centrale pour la protection de l'enfant
Delaunay, Valérie - In: Mondes en développement n° 146 (2009) 2, pp. 33-46
Child?s care is a central issue in the field of child abuse and neglect in Africa. Whether children are cared for within or outside the family, or by institutions, the disruptions lead to children?s exploitation, maltreatment, abuse, neglect or abandonment. This article aims to review the...
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Grandparental effects on reproductive strategizing
Skinner, G. William - In: Demographic Research 11 (2004) 5, pp. 111-148
This paper analyzes data from the household registers for two villages in the Nôbi region of central Japan in the late Edo period (1717-1869) to assess how grandparents may have affected reproductive strategizing in stem families. The particulars of the family system fostered a culturally...
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From South Asia to Diaspora: Missing Women and Migration
McCARTNEY, MATTHEW; GILL, AISHA - Department of Economics, School of Oriental and African … - 2007
be operational in a developed country; namely, female infanticide and deprivation of nutrition and health care for girls …
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“The Mad”, “The Bad”, “The Victim”: Gendered Constructions of Women Who Kill within the Criminal Justice System
Weare, Siobhan - In: Laws 2 (2013) 3, pp. 337-361
Women commit significantly fewer murders than men and are perceived to be less violent. This belief about women’s non-violence reflects the discourses surrounding gender, all of which assume that women possess certain inherent essential characteristics such as passivity and gentleness. When...
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Self-Selection into Export Markets by Business Services Firms: Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom
Wagner, Joachim; Temouri, Yama; Vogel, Alexander - 2011
comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages … services firms into exporting does not show up among firms from France and the UK where no statistically significant …
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Das agrarsoziale Sicherungssystem in Frankreich: Zentrale Merkmale und Entwicklungen aus der Perspektive der landwirtschaftlichen Sozialversicherung in Deutschland
Mehl, Peter - 2011
Eine vergleichende Analyse der agrarsozialen Sicherungssysteme in Deutschland und Frankreich, die auch eine vergleichende Bewertung der Systeme aus der Perspektive der versicherten Landwirte enthält, ist trotz einiger Parallelen zwischen landwirtschaftlicher Sozialversicherung (LSV) und...
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Do determinants of FDI to developing countries differ among OECD investors? Insights from Bayesian model averaging
Antonakakis, Nikolaos; Tondl, Gabriele - 2012
, Germany, France and the Netherlands to developing countries located in different world regions. Our goal is to elucidate …
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The French Productivity Puzzle
Askenazy, Philippe; Erhel, Christine - 2015
Since 2008, France experiences a sharp productivity slowdown. Both output per hour and total factor productivity are …
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The future of nuclear power in France: An analysis of the costs of phasing-out
Malischek, Raimund; Trüby, Johannes - 2014
Nuclear power is an important pillar in electricity generation in France. However, France's nuclear power plant fleet … in France under different scenarios? Second, who has to bear these costs, i.e., how much of the costs will be passed on … France have on system costs? Applying a stochastic optimization model for the European electricity system, we show that …
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