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There is Only One Mother

The Importance of Mother in Rural Spain, 1750–1959

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ID6080290
AuthorsFrancisco J Marco-Gracia (0000-0002-8150-9823, Universidad de Zaragoza, corresponding author), Amy Rommelspacher (0000-0002-8867-3124, Stellenbosch University), Youngook Jang (Korea Institute for International Economic Policy), Young-ook Jang (0000-0003-0379-2237, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy)
Year2024
Volume49
Issue4
Pages356-376
Publication date2024-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Family History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0363-1990 • E-ISSN: 1552-5473
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/03631990241258997
OpenAlexW4399355588
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited28

Several studies have shown the importance of the mother in the survival and wellbeing of her children. However, none of them have analyzed the rural areas of the Iberian Peninsula. In this article we use the life courses of more than 10 thousand children born between 1750 and 1959 to understand the effects of being motherless on the survival, educative outputs, and wellbeing. To achieve this, we use descriptive statistics as well as Cox and OLS regression models. Our results confirm that the mother is one of the most important relative for the survival and wellbeing of her young children

Child mortality · Child survival · Demographic economics · Descriptive statistics · Economics · Geography · Political science · Population · Proportional hazards model · Rural area · Sociology · Statistics · Demography · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Law · Psychology

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