Sammendrag
This Conference, which builds on a previous Online Seminar, explores whether there were "missing girls", and thus discriminatory practices unduly increasing female mortality at birth, infancy and/or childhood, in historical Europe. The historical experience of non-European countries is also addressed in order to establish comparisons between different regions. As well as identifying the type of families that were more likely to be involved in this kind of behaviour and the factors that explain the existence of discriminatory practices, this conference also explores the societal effects of these practices, thus contributing to the growing literature on the link between gender inequality and economic development. Methodologically speaking, this event primarily focuses on sex ratios obtained from population censuses, parish registers and/or vital statistics. Given the importance of child abandonment in the past, the conference also features studies exploring whether sex was an important dimension in the decision to get rid of unwanted babies.
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