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000151556 100__ $$0(orcid)0000-0002-8150-9823$$aMarco-Gracia, Francisco J.$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza
000151556 245__ $$aThe missing boys: Understanding the unbalanced sex ratio in South Africa, 1894–2011
000151556 260__ $$c2022
000151556 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted
000151556 5203_ $$aAt the beginning of the twentieth century in South Africa, the sex ratio for black children under five years was one of the lowest ever recorded. Sex ratios also differed markedly by racial group. Those for white children remained almost invariable, with more boys than girls, while black children had a clear majority of girls, a situation that the literature has almost completely overlooked. The reasons are still not completely clear. Although sex ratios at birth show more births of boys than girls, boys’ mortality was higher than girls’ mortality. Why boys’ mortality was so high and why, as a consequence, the twentieth-century under-five sex ratio for black children was so skewed towards girls, a ratio much lower, for example, than the sex ratios of pre-industrial European countries, remains unanswered. We suggest several possible explanations. The most likely explanation, we argue, was a preference for girls.
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000151556 593__ $$aHistory$$c2022$$dQ1
000151556 593__ $$aDevelopment$$c2022$$dQ2
000151556 593__ $$aEconomics and Econometrics$$c2022$$dQ2
000151556 594__ $$a1.5$$b2022
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000151556 700__ $$aFourie, Johan
000151556 7102_ $$14014$$2480$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Economía Aplicada$$cÁrea Hª e Instituc.Económ.
000151556 773__ $$g37, 2 (2022), 128-146$$tEconomic History of Developing Regions$$x2078-0389
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