• 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 ...
    • Local institutions and human capital formation in pre-industrial societies: evidence from Valencia 

      Beltran Tapia, Francisco Javier; Martínez-Galarraga, Julio; Tirado Fabregat, Daniel; Díez-Minguela, Alfonso; Gómez-Tello, Alicia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      This article analyses the relationship between institutions and human capital formation. We use literacy rates in 1860 at the municipal level in Valencia where the expulsion of the Moriscos in 1609 was followed by the ...