Infanticide in 19th century France: a quantitative interpretationâ
Brigitte H. Bechtold
Abstract Infanticide in 19th-century France is investigated by surveying historical evidence, and modeling socio-economic explanations of changes secondary sex ratios, disaggregated region legitimacy status. The estimated seemingly unrelated regression model suggests that, while women received less than equitable access to the benefits mechanization during period French industrial expansion, need for low-wage female child labor textile industry helped significantly reduce infanticide.
Review of Radical Political Economics