Rebeca Echavarri

Biographic Data

ID1734803
NAMERebeca Echavarri
GIVEN NAMESRebeca
FAMILY NAMEEchavarri
SIGNATUREECHAVARRI R
AFFILIATIONSUniversidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA)
ORCID0000-0002-0216-2826
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS23
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Sex-Selective Abortions and Fatal Neglect of Young Girls

    Open AccessRebeca EchavarriARTICLEPopulation Research and Policy…2025References: 26

    A significant portion of female neonatal, infant and child mortality could be avoided. These girls form part of the phenomenon known as missing women. Previous literature has examined whether families that prevent unwanted (female) pregnancies from reaching term provide greater care to the surviving daughters, but it reports mixed results. An avenue that has received limited attention is the possibility that explicit discrimination against girls …

  • Prenatal Care, Son Preference, and the Sex Ratio at Birth

    Open AccessRebeca Echavarri, Francisco J Beltrán TapiaARTICLEDemography2025Cited by: 1References: 59

    The sex ratio at birth (SRB) in Spain jumped abruptly in the late 1970s and temporarily reached values of more than 109 boys per 100 girls in the early 1980s. This article shows that health care system expansion increased the likelihood of male births in Spain between 1975 and 1995. By facilitating the delivery of preterm and dystocic babies and improving overall maternal conditions, these developments increased the survival chances of male fetus…

  • Economic development, female wages and missing female births in Spain, 1900–1930

    Open AccessRebeca Echavarri, Francisco J Beltrán TapiaARTICLECliometrica2024

    Focusing on Spain between 1900 and 1930, a period characterised by significant structural transformations and rapid economic growth, this article shows that the sex ratio at birth (SRB) was abnormally high, at least until the 1920s. Apart from questioning whether female under-registration and different mortality environments alone can explain the results reported here, our analysis of regional information indicates that SRBs were higher in provin…

  • Neonatal discrimination and excess female mortality in childhood in Spain in the first half of the twentieth century

    Open AccessRebeca EchavarriARTICLECliometrica2022

  • Using visual stimuli to promote healthy snack choices among children

    Open AccessJuan Miguel Benito-Ostolaza, Rebeca Echavarri et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2021References: 59

  • An evolutionary model of prenatal and postnatal discrimination against females

    Open AccessJorge Alcalde-Unzu, Rebeca Echavarri et al.ARTICLEMathematical Social Sciences2020Cited by: 2References: 15

  • The Missing Link Between Parents’ Preferences and Daughters’ Survival

    Open AccessRebeca Echavarri, Javier HusillosARTICLEWorld Development2015Cited by: 3References: 13

  • Education and gender bias in the sex ratio at birth

    Open AccessRebeca Echavarri, Rebeca A Echávarri et al.ARTICLEDemography2010Cited by: 17References: 36

    This article investigates the possible existence of a nonlinear link between female disadvantage in natality and education. To this end, we devise a theoretical model based on the key role of social interaction in explaining people’s acquisition of preferences, which justifies the existence of a nonmonotonic relationship between female disadvantage in natality and education. The empirical validity of the proposed model is examined for the case of…