Publications

Working Papers

Culture, economic stress and missing girls (Viktor Malein, Tamar Matiashvili and Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia) 

Missing girls in 18th-century Spain (Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia, Alfonso Díez-Minguela and Julio Martínez-Galarraga)

Sex ratios and missing girls in late-19th-century Europe (Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia).

Special Issue

30 years after Sen's missing girls: Reconsidering the experience of historical Europe, The History of the Family 27, 4 (2022) (Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia and Mikolaj Szoltysek).

Journal Articles

Son preference, maternal care and sex ratios at birth, Demography (forthcoming) Rebeca Echavarri and Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia) 

Life and death under son preference: Economic stress, fertility and early-life mortality in rural Spain, 1800-1910, Rural History (2025) (Francisco J. Marco-Gracia, Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia and Víctor A. Luque de Haro)

Missing girls in Liberal Italy, 1861-1921, The Economic History Review (2024) (Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia and Gabriele Capelli)

Economic development, female wages and missing female births in Spain, 1900-1930, Cliometrica (Rebeca Echavarri & Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia)

'Missing girls' in historical Europe: Reopening the debate, The History of the Family (2022) (Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia & Mikolaj Szoltysek) 

Infant and child sex ratios in late Imperial Russia, The History of the Family (2022) (Viktor Malein and Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia)

Family patriarchy and child sex ratios in historical Europe, The History of the Family (2022) (Mikolaj Szoltysek, Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia, Bartosz Ogórek & Siegfried Gruber)

Assessing gender discrimination during infancy and childhood using twins: The case of rural Spain, 1750-1950, The History of the Family (2022) (Francisco J. Marco-Gracia & Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia)

Inferring "missing girls" from child sex ratios in historical census data, Historical Methods: Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (2022) (Mikolaj Szoltysek, Bartosz Ogórek, Siegfried Gruber & Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia)

Death, sex and fertility: Female infanticide in rural Spain, 1750-1950, European Review of Economic History (2021) (Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia & Francisco Marco-Gracia).

Sex ratios and gender discrimination in Modern Greece, Population Studies (2021) (Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia & Michail Raftakis).

Son preference, gender discrimination and missing girls in rural Spain, 1750-1950, Population and Development Review (2021) (Francisco Marco-Gracia & Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia).

What explains the missing girls in 19th-century Spain?, Economic History Review 73, 1 (2020), pp. 59-77 (Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia & Domingo Gallego-Martínez).

Where are the missing girls? Gender discrimination in 19th century Spain, Explorations in Economic History 66 (2017), pp. 117-126. (Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia & Domingo Gallego-Martínez).