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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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Corporate social responsibility in the context of female foeticide and infanticide in Rajasthan

Thakur, Deepika; Sharma, Anukrati - In: Manthan : journal of commerce and management 1 (2014) 2, pp. 72-84

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Child-bride marriage and female welfare

Suarez, Paola A. - In: European journal of law and economics 45 (2018) 1, pp. 1-28

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Tradition and mortality : evidence from twin infanticide in Africa

Fenske, James; Wang, Shizhuo - In: Journal of development economics 163 (2023), pp. 1-21

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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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Pruncuciderea, text imperfect in actualul Cod penal [Infanticide, imperfect text in the current Criminal Code]

FLOREA, Ana Andreea - In: Jurnalul de Studii Juridice 1-2 (2009) June, pp. 139-149

by the adult society and that the history of humanity is marked by the maltreats against children. The infanticide direct … encouraged by society’s health, demographic and religious reasons. The infanticide is defined in the Romanian penal code in the … code describes infanticide in a new way, setting a new temporal condition “24 hours after the birth” and introduces a new …

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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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Maternal rank is not correlated with cub survival in the spotted hyena, Crocuta crocuta

White, Paula A. - In: Behavioral Ecology 16 (2005) 3, pp. 606-613

included intraclan infanticide, disease, orphaning, predation by lions, and a mechanism of filial infanticide that has not been …

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Female eviction, abortion, and infanticide in banded mongooses (Mungos mungo): implications for social control of reproduction and synchronized parturition

Gilchrist, Jason S. - In: Behavioral Ecology 17 (2006) 4, pp. 664-669

, and infanticide in a cooperatively breeding species with low preparturition reproductive skew, the banded mongoose (Mungos … a major selective pressure. Infanticide could represent the selective pressure for synchronized parturition …

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