Publications and working papers (by topic)

Female excess mortality in infancy and childhood

Culture, economic stress and missing girls (Working Paper with Viktor Malein and Tamar Matiashvili)

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

Son preference, maternal care and sex ratios at birth (Working Paper with Rebeca Echavarri)

Missing girls in Liberal Italy, 1861-1921, The Economic History Review 77, 1 (2024): 185-211 (with Gabriele Cappelli)

Economic development, female wages and missing female births in Spain, 1900-1930, Cliometrica (2023) (with Rebeca Echavarri)

‘Missing girls’ in historical Europe: Reopening the debate, The History of the Family 27, 4 (2022): 619-657 (with Mikolaj Szoltysek)

Infant and child sex ratios in late Imperial Russia, The History of the Family 27, 4 (2022): 736-763 (with Viktor Malein)

Family patriarchy and child sex ratios in historical Europe, The History of the Family 27, 4 (2022): 702-735 (with Mikolaj Szoltysek, Bartosz Ogórek and Siegfried Gruber)

Assessing gender discrimination during infancy and childhood using twins: The case of rural Spain, 1750-1950, The History of the Family 27, 4 (2022): 658-678 (with Francisco J. Marco-Gracia)

Sex ratios and gender discrimination in Modern Greece, Population Studies 76, 2 (2022): 329-346 (with Michail Raftakis).

Inferring “missing girls” from child sex ratios in historical census data, Historical Methods: Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 55, 2 (2022): 98-121 (with Mikolaj Szoltysek, Bartosz Ogórek and Siegfried Gruber)

Death, sex and fertility: Female infanticide in rural Spain, 1750-1950, European Review of Economic History 26, 2 (2022): 234-254 (with Francisco Marco-Gracia).

Son preference, gender discrimination and missing girls in rural Spain, 1750-1950, Population and Development Review 47, 3 (2021): 665-687 (with Francisco Marco-Gracia).

Sex ratios and missing girls in late-19th-century Europe (Working Paper).

What explains the missing girls in 19th-century Spain?, Economic History Review 73, 1 (2020): 59-77 (with Domingo Gallego-Martínez).

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

Education

Local institutions and human capital formation in pre-industrial societies: Evidence from Valencia, European Review of Economic History (with Alfonso Díez-Minguela, Alicia Gómez-Tello, Julio Martínez-Galarraga, and Daniel Tirado-Fabregat).

La alfabetización en el mundo urbano espanol, 1860-1930, in L.E. Otero Carvajal and S. de Miguel Salanova (eds.), La educación en Espana. El salto adelante, 1900-1930 (Madrid: Catarata). (with Alfonso Díez-Minguela, Julio Martínez-Galarraga and Daniel Tirado-Fabregat).

Two stories, one fate: Age-heaping and literacy in Spain, 1877-1930, Revista de Historia Económica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History 40, 3 (2022), pp. 405-438 (with Alfonso Díez-Minguela, Julio Martínez-Galarraga and Daniel Tirado-Fabregat).

The uneven transition towards universal literacy in Spain, 1860-1930, History of Education 50, 5 (2021), pp. 605-627 (with Alfonso Díez-Minguela, Julio Martínez-Galarraga and Daniel Tirado-Fabregat).

Class, literacy and social mobility: Madrid, 1880-1905, The History of the Family 26, 1 (2021), pp. 149-172 (with Santiago de Miguel Salanova).

Capital humano y desigualdad territorial. El proceso de alfabetización en los municipios españoles desde la Ley Moyano hasta la Guerra Civil, Banco de España: Estudios de Historia Económica 74, 2019 (with Alfonso Díez-Minguela, Julio Martínez-Galarraga and Daniel Tirado-Fabregat).

Inequality and education in pre-industrial economies: Evidence from Spain, Explorations in Economic History 69 (2018), pp. 81-101 (with Julio Martínez-Galarraga).

Migrants’ self-selection in the early stages of modern economic growth, Spain (1880–1930), Economic History Review 70, 1 (2017), pp. 101-121 (with Santiago de Miguel Salanova).

Enclosing literacy? Common lands and human capital in Spain, 1860-1930, Journal of Institutional Economics 9, 4 (2013), pp. 491-515.

Population, inequality and economic growth

The roots of land inequality in Spain (Working Paper with Alfonso Díez-Minguela, Julio Martínez-Galarraga and Daniel Tirado-Fabregat).

The shadow of cities: size, location and the long-term spatial distribution of population in Spain, The Annals of Regional Science 66 (2021): 729-753 (with Julio Martínez-Galarraga and Alfonso Díez-Minguela).

Inequality and growth in a developing economy: Evidence from regional data (Spain, 1860-1930), Social Science History 44, 1 (2020): 169-192 (with Julio Martínez-Galarraga).

Tracing the Evolution of Agglomeration Economies: Spain, 1860-1991, Journal of Economic History 78, 1 (2018), pp. 81-117 (with Alfonso Díez-Minguela and Julio Martínez-Galarraga).

Agricultural Development

Revisiting Allen’s nitrogen hypothesis from a climate perspective (1645-1740) (Working Paper with José Luis Martínez-González).

[Communal hopes and land reform in rural Spain, 1931-1936] (with Iñaki Iriarte and José Miguel Lana).

En torno al comunal en España: Una agenda de investigación llena de retos y promesas, in D. Soto Fernández and J.M. Lana Berasáin (eds.), Del pasado al futuro como problema: La historia agraria contemporánea española en el siglo XXI (Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 2018: pp. 145-162) (link to the working paper).

Common lands and economic development in Spain, Revista de Historia Económica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History 34, 1 (2016), pp. 111-133.

Commons and the standard of living debate in Spain, 1860-1930, Cliometrica 9, 1 (2015), pp. 27-48.

“Goth and Vandals” or “Civilised” peasants? Common lands and agricultural productivity in Spain, 1900-1930, Social Science History 39, 2 (2015), pp. 217-252.

Social and environmental filters to market incentives: Common land persistence in 19th century Spain, Journal of Agrarian Change 15, 2 (2015), pp. 239-260.

Commons, Social Capital and the Emergence of Agricultural Cooperatives in Early 20th Century Spain, European Review of Economic History 16 (2012), pp. 511-528.