全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP15818 Inferring “missing girls” from child sex ratios in European historical census data: A conservative approach

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP15818
	DP15818 Inferring “missing girls” from child sex ratios in European historical census data: A conservative approach
	Francisco Beltrán Tapia; Mikołaj Szołtysek; Bartosz Ogórek; Siegfried Gruber
发表日期	2021-02-16
出版年	2021
语种	英语
摘要	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 that there was discrimination against female children, without assessing the possibility that the observed child sex ratios could be attributable to chance, mortality differentials, or registration quality. This article contributes to this discussion by (1) using a novel dataset of historical child sex ratios that covers a large part of the European geography between 1700 and 1950; and (2) explicitly considering the effects of random variability, demographic variation, and faulty enumeration in the analysis. Our results provide evidence that some of these European populations had child sex ratios well above the levels usually considered “natural”. Although part of this variation is indeed shown to be due to random noise and structural features related to infant mortality differentials and census quality, some of the observed sex ratios are too high to be attributed solely to these proximate factors. Thus, these findings suggest that there are behavioural explanations for some of the unbalanced sex ratios observed in our data.
主题	Economic History
关键词	Sex ratios Infant and child mortality Gender discrimination Health
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp15818
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/544817
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Francisco Beltrán Tapia,Mikołaj Szołtysek,Bartosz Ogórek,等. DP15818 Inferring “missing girls” from child sex ratios in European historical census data: A conservative approach. 2021.