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...

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Publicado en:Demography (Springer Nature) Vol. 52; no. 2; pp. 667 - 704
Autor principal: Drixler, Fabian
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Apr2015
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