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 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 …

The research explores the effects of the environment on neonatal mortality in the early
nineteenth century, controlling for social and economic factors. Individual data, relative to the …

Data quality issues have hindered the analysis of the determinants of stillbirths in the years
following Italian unification. By exploiting panel data techniques to take into account the …

The medical literature has shown that populations under high stress have a lower sex ratio
at birth (ie number of males for every 100 females). In this paper, I examine the relationship …

The sex ratio at birth (SRB) in Spain jumped abruptly in the late 1970s and temporarily
reached values over 109 boys per 100 girls during the early 1980s. This period was …

Historical sex ratio in fetal mortality in the United States and its impact on the sex ratio at birth*
Page 1 SIDeS, «Popolazione e Storia», 2/2022, pp. 9-35. DOI: 10.4424/ps2022-5 Historical sex …

This chapter describes and compares the demography of recent California wildfire fatalities
with earlier California wildfire victims and recent Australian bushfire deaths. By identifying …