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All little girls, the bad luck!' Sex ratios and gender discrimination in 19th-century Greece
Tapia, Francisco J. Beltrán; Raftakis, Michail - 2019
Based on anecdotal evidence on girls' inferior status and the analysis of sex ratios, this article argues that son preference resulted in gender discriminatory practices that unduly increased female mortality rates in infancy and childhood in Greece during the late-19th and early-20th century....
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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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Life and death under son preference: Economic stress, fertility and early-life mortality in rural Spain, 1800-1910
Marco-Gracia, Francisco J.; Tapia, Francisco J. Beltrán; … - 2023
Relying on longitudinal micro data from 13 Spanish rural villages between 1800 and 1910, this paper assesses whether discriminatory practices affected fertility and sex-specific mortality during infancy and childhood during economic crises in an area with a strong preference for sons. Our...
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Cultural Norms and Women's Health: Implications of the Practice of Menstrual Restrictions in Nepal
Kumar, Rahul; Maity, Bipasha - 2021
We study the association between the ritual of menstrual restrictions and maternal health- care access as well as women … persistent negative implications on women's physical and mental health that is not just limited to the time of menstruation …. ****** Please cite the published version: Rahul Kumar and Bipasha Maity (2022), "Cultural norms and women's health: Implications of …
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On the Quantity and Quality of Girls: New Evidence on Abortion, Fertility, and Parental Investments
Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2016
The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys, and the relative chances of girls surviving...
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Excess female mortality in Africa
Anderson, Siwan; Ray, Debraj - 2017
Relative to developed countries, there are far fewer women than men in parts of the developing world. Estimates suggest that more than 200 million women are demographically 'missing' worldwide. To explain the global 'missing women' phenomenon, research has mainly focused on excess female...
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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Perez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2019
investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies … maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026212
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Maternal Age and Offspring Human Capital in India
Perez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2019
investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies … maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059219
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Maternal Age and Offspring Human Capital in India
Perez Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2020
age on offspring human capital in terms of health and cognition. The analysis relies on mother fixed effects to allow for …. Interestingly, the Adolescent Motherhood, Human Capital, Child Development, Cognition, Health, Nutrition, Gender, Parenting effect … on health weakens over time, while the cognition effect surges in early adolescence. Further analysis suggests both …
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Gene-Environment Effects on Female Fertility
Barban, Nicola; De Cao, Elisabetta; Francesconi, Marco - 2021
Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the extent to which genes, proxied by polygenic scores, and the environment, proxied by early exposure to the contraceptive pill diffusion, affect age at first sexual intercourse, age at...
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