Blar i Institutt for moderne samfunnshistorie på forfatter "Beltrán Tapia, Francisco Javier"

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    • Assessing gender discrimination during infancy and childhood using twins: The case of rural Spain, 1750-1950 

      Beltrán Tapia, Francisco Javier; Marco-Gracia, Francisco (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      This article uncovers the existence of discriminatory practices in pre-industrial Spain by examining the fate of twins. The analysis of the complete parish registers of a small rural area (17 villages) shows that female ...

    • Death, sex, and fertility: female infanticide in rural Spain, 1750–1950 

      Beltrán Tapia, Francisco Javier; Marco-Gracia, Francisco (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Relying on longitudinal micro data from rural Spain between 1750 and 1950, this article evidences that families mortally neglected a significant fraction of their female babies. Firstly, baptism records exhibited exceptionally ...

    • 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 ...

    • Infant and child sex ratios in late Imperial Russia 

      Beltrán Tapia, Francisco Javier; Malein, Viktor (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

    • 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 ...

    • Sex ratios and gender discrimination in Modern Greece 

      Beltrán Tapia, Francisco Javier; Raftakis, Michail (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      This paper argues that son preference resulted in gender-based discriminatory practices that unduly increased mortality rates for females at birth and throughout infancy and childhood in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century ...

    • The shadow of cities: size, location and the spatial distribution of population 

      Beltrán Tapia, Francisco Javier; Díez-Minguela, Alfonso; Martinez-Galarraga, Julio (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Using a large dataset on the population of Spanish municipalities between 1877 and 2001, this paper analyses how their initial size and the presence of neighbouring urban locations influence subsequent population growth ...

    • Son preference, gender discrimination and missing girls in rural Spain, 1750-1950 

      Beltrán Tapia, Francisco Javier; Marco-Gracia, Francisco (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Relying on longitudinal microdata from a Spanish rural region between 1750 and 1950 (almost 35,000 life courses), this article provides evidence that discriminatory practices affected sex-specific mortality during infancy ...

    • Two stories, one fate: Age-heaping and literacy in Spain, 1877-1930 

      Beltrán Tapia, Francisco Javier; Díez-Minguela, Alfonso; Martínez-Galarraga, Julio; Tirado-Fabregat, Daniel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      This study looks at human capital in Spain during the early stages of modern economic growth. We have assembled a new dataset for age-heaping and literacy in Spain with information about men and women from six population ...

    • The uneven transition towards universal literacy in Spain, 1860–1930 

      Beltrán Tapia, Francisco Javier; Díez-Minguela, Alfonso; Martínez-Galarraga, Julio; Tirado-Fabregat, Daniel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      This study provides new evidence on the advance of literacy in Spain during the period 1860–1930. A novel dataset, built with historical information from the Spanish population censuses (over 8000 municipalities), enables ...