Conjuring the Ghosts of Missing Children: A Monte Carlo Simulation of Reproductive Restraint in Tokugawa Japan.
This article quantifies the frequency of infanticide and abortion in one region of Japan by comparing observed fertility in a sample of 4.9 million person-years (1660-1872) with a Monte Carlo simulation of how many conceptions and births that population should have experienced. The simulation uses e...
| Publicado en: | Demography (Springer Nature) Vol. 52; no. 2; pp. 667 - 704 |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Artículo |
| Publicado: |
Springer Nature
Apr2015
|
| Materias: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |