• Missing girls in Liberal Italy, 1861–1921 

      Beltran Tapia, Francisco Javier; Cappelli, Gabriele (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      By relying on the number of (surviving) boys per hundred girls observed in the population censuses as a cumulative measure of differential mortality during birth, infancy, and childhood, this paper shows that average Italian ...
    • What explains the missing girls in 19th-century Spain? 

      Beltrán Tapia, Francisco Javier; Gallego-Martínez, Domingo (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Infant and childhood sex ratios in nineteenth‐century Spain were abnormally high, thus pointing to some sort of unexplained excess female mortality. This article analyses internal regional variation and shows that certain ...