This chapter reviews the growing body of research in economics which concentrates on the
education gender gap and its evolution, over time and across countries. The survey first …

Why do certain countries display high gender equalities while others display low gender
equalities? To what extent does gender equality foster economic growth and development …

Behavior is a way for organisms to respond flexibly to the environmental conditions they
encounter. Our own species exhibits large behavioral flexibility and occurs in all terrestrial …

The concept of critical criminology–that crime and the present-day processes of
criminalization are rooted in the core structures of society–is of more relevance today than it …

Water harvesting has been widely applied in different social-ecological contexts, proving to
be a valuable approach to sustainable intensification of agriculture. Global estimates of the …

Obtaining cross-country comparative perspectives on male fertility has long been difficult, as
male fertility is usually less well registered than female fertility. Recent methodological …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Recent research argues that discriminatory practices unduly inflated female excess mortality
during infancy and childhood in historical Europe. This article reviews the existing evidence …