Why did more female infants than male infants die in Europe from 1700 to 1950?

“Missing Girls in Historical Europe” is a major research project at NTNU in which researchers have looked into numbers of girls and boys in European countries over a 250-year period. They found that the number of male children was higher in several countries during periods of poverty and poor living conditions.

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