117426 20240319080956.0 doi 10.1017/S0021932022000116 sideral 128670 ART-2022-128670 eng Marco-Gracia, Francisco J. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-8150-9823 The effect of height on family formation in rural Spain, birth-cohorts 1835-1975 2022 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted This article examines the relationship between the height of adult males and marital outcomes, including likelihood of marrying, age at marriage, and marital fertility, in rural Spain. For this analysis, a sample of 4, 501 men born between 1835 and 1975 living in 14 villages in northeastern Spain was taken. Previous research has shown that shorter individuals are less likely to marry. However, it is still disputed whether differences exist in the timing of marrying based on height, and little attention has been paid to the effect(s) of height on offspring. Family data were obtained from parish records and interviews with individuals and their families, while height data were obtained from military records, with individuals in Spain being conscripted at the age of 21 years. The data were linked according to nominative criteria using family reconstitution methods. The results confirm that shorter individuals were less likely to marry. Individuals of medium and medium-high height were the first to marry, with a small gap between them and shorter individuals. With regard to marital fertility, no difference in terms of average fertility by height were found, but there were small differences in timing of childbirth, possibly as a result of delayed marriage. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA-FEDER/S55-20R info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MCIU/PID2019-109336GB-I00 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/PGC2018-095529-B-I00 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 1.5 2022 DEMOGRAPHY 22 / 30 = 0.733 2022 Q3 T3 SOCIAL SCIENCES, BIOMEDICAL 39 / 45 = 0.867 2022 Q4 T3 0.467 2022 Social Sciences (miscellaneous) 2022 Q2 Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 2022 Q3 4.9 2022 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 4014 480 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Economía Aplicada Área Hª e Instituc.Económ. 55, 3 (2022), 574–591 J. biosoc. sci. JOURNAL OF BIOSOCIAL SCIENCE 0021-9320 808914 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/117426/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 2274492 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/117426/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:117426 articulos driver 2024-03-18-13:38:20 ARTICLE