• Family patriarchy and child sex ratios in historical Europe 

      Beltrán Tapia, Francisco Javier; Szoltysek, Mikolaj; Ogórek, Bartosz; Gruber, Siegfried (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Although recent findings suggest that gender-discriminatory practices unduly increased female mortality rates during infancy and childhood in historical Europe, especially in Southern and Eastern Europe, there is little ...
    • Inferring “missing girls” from child sex ratios in historical census data 

      Szoltysek, Mikolaj; Ogórek, Bartosz; Gruber, Siegfried; Beltrán Tapia, Francisco Javier (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The topic of “missing girls” in historical Europe has not only been mostly neglected, but previous research addressing this issue usually took the available information too lightly, either rejecting or accepting the claims ...
    • ‘Missing girls’ in historical Europe: reopening the debate 

      Beltrán Tapia, Francisco Javier; Szoltysek, Mikolaj (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Recent research argues that discriminatory practices unduly inflated female excess mortality during infancy and childhood in historical Europe. This article reviews the existing evidence by (1) evaluating the sources that ...