sample of publications

• articles 

  • Paradoxes concerning low birthweight in Spain.  Revista Española de Antropología Física.  48:27-39. 2024
  • Análisis de la evolución histórica de la razón de masculinidad al nacer en España=Analysis of the historical evolution of sex ratio at birth in Spain.  Revista Espanola de Investigaciones Sociologicas.  139-166. 2023
  • Factors influencing the sex ratio at birth in the United States from a historical perspective.  JOURNAL OF BIOSOCIAL SCIENCE.  55:1015-1038. 2023
  • Relationship between historical developments in the percentages of low birthweight and fetal mortality in Spain.  Gaceta Sanitaria.  2023
  • Historical trends in female nuptiality in Italy and analysis of possible underlying reasons.  History of the Family.  28:484-507. 2023
  • Historical sex ratio in fetal mortality in the United States and its impact on the sex ratio at birth.  Popolazione e Storia.  23:9-35. 2022
  • U. S. Political Economy on Migrants-Citizens Relations: State-Raids Vs. Church-Sanctuaries (Charity Re-Privatization).  Perichoresis.  20:3-25. 2022
  • China's fertility change: an analysis with multiple measures.  Population Health Metrics.  20:1-14. 2022
  • Determining factors in the historical decline in marital fertility in Spain = Factores determinantes del descenso histórico de la fecundidad marital en España.  Revista Internacional de Sociologia.  77:1-16. 2019
  • A Provincial Analysis of Nuptiality in Spain (1887-2001) = Análisis provincial de la nupcialidad en España (1887-2001).  Revista Espanola de Investigaciones Sociologicas.  79-100. 2018
  • Evolution of Life Expectancy at Birth in French Departements Over the Period 1833-1982.  SPATIAL DEMOGRAPHY.  6:89-120. 2018
  • Measuring and explaining the baby boom in the developed world in the mid-20th century.  Demographic Research.  38:1189-1240. 2018
  • Measuring and explaining the marriage boom in the developed world.  History of the Family.  23:90-108. 2018
  • Historical reproductive patterns in developed countries: An aggregate-level perspective.  Demographic Research.  38:37-94. 2018
  • Dynamic analysis of the long-term relationships between mortality and marital fertility in the developed world.  Population Review.  56:102-135. 2017
  • Análisis de las estadísticas oficiales del suicidio en España (1910-2011) = Analysis of Official Suicide Statistics in Spain (1910-2011).  Revista Espanola de Investigaciones Sociologicas.  95-113. 2017
  • Changes in sex ratio at birth in China: A decomposition by birth order.  JOURNAL OF BIOSOCIAL SCIENCE.  49:826-841. 2017
  • Trends in the proportion of married women of reproductive age in Spain, 1887-1991.  History of the Family.  23:239-259. 2017
  • The long-term determinants of marital fertility in the developed world (19th and 20th centuries): The role of welfare policies.  Demographic Research.  36. 2017
  • Mortality-fertility synergies during the demographic transition in the developed world.  POPULATION STUDIES-A JOURNAL OF DEMOGRAPHY.  71:155-170. 2017
  • Can China afford rapid aging?.  SpringerPlus.  5. 2016
  • Demographic Reconstruction of the Camp de Tarragona Area in Spain, 1547-1877.  Annales de Demographie Historique.  2016-1:171-203. 2016
  • Son preference as a new twist in China's low fertility.  N-IUSSP | IUSSP's online news magazine.  2016
  • Fertility intention, son preference, and second childbirth: survey findings from Shaanxi province of China.  SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH.  125:935-953. 2016
  • Demographic causes of urban decline in 17th century Spain.  Annales de Demographie Historique.  2015-2:133-159. 2015
  • Marriage expenses in rural China.  China Review-An Interdisciplinary Journal on Greater China.  15:207-236. 2015
  • Data Uncertainties in China's Population.  Asian Social Science .  11:200-205. 2015
  • Leaving Home for a Better Life?: Occupational Mobility of Skilled Immigrants: Some Empirical Comments from Spain in Light of the Current Economic Crisis.  Migraciones Internacionales.  8:159-187. 2015
  • The risk of mothers: Losing an only child in China.  JOURNAL OF BIOSOCIAL SCIENCE.  46:531-545. 2014
  • The Family in Navarre (Spain) Today: A Mosaic Combining Past and Present.  JOURNAL OF FAMILY HISTORY.  39:261-282. 2014
  • Elderly widowhood in China.  Asian Population Studies.  11:7-16. 2014
  • Forecasting China's Mortality.  Population Review.  52:87-98. 2013
  • Child Trafficking in China.  China Report.  49:317-335. 2013
  • Socio-Demographic Risks and Challenges of Bare-Branch Villages in China.  Asian Social Work and Policy Review.  7:99-116. 2013
  • Estimates of missing women in twentieth-century China.  CONTINUITY AND CHANGE.  27:461-479. 2012
  • The predicament of Bare Branches' Sexuality.  The electronic journal of human sexuality.  15. 2012
  • Bride price in China: the obstacle to 'Bare Branches' seeking marriage.  History of the Family.  17:2-15. 2012
  • Bare Branches and social stability: a historical perspective from China.  Frontiers of History in China.  6:538-561. 2011
  • Marriage Squeeze in China's Future.  Asian Population Studies.  7:177-193. 2011
  • Trafficking in Women in China.  Asian Women.  27:83-112. 2011
  • The 4-2-1 family structure in China: a survival analysis based on life tables.  European Journal of Ageing.  8:119-127. 2011
  • La inversión en capital humano y el descenso de la fecundidad en las sociedades árabes del Mediterráneo Oriental.  Nike.La Rivista Delle Scienze Politiche.  143-180. 2009
  • Análisis de la fecundidad, la infecundidad y la concentración de la reproducción de las generaciones nacidas en la primera mitad del siglo XX en España.  Rivista italiana di economia, demografia e statistica.  62:129. 2008

• book chapters 

  • Trafficking of women from neighboring countries into China for marriage within the context of gender imbalance. In: Human Trafficking and Female Migration: Problems of Evolving Humanity and Emerging World.  ANMOL PUBLICATIONS PVT. LTD.. 1-25. 2014
  • Early Retirement and Firm Size in Spain. In: Economy in Changing Society: Consumptions, Markets, Organizations and Social Policies.  CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARS PUBLISHING. 281-318. 2011

• books 

  • Socioeconomía de las migraciones en un mundo globalizado.  MADRID: EDITORIAL BIBLIOTECA NUEVA,S.L.. 2010
  • El crecimiento de la población mundial: implicaciones socioeconómicas, ecológicas y éticas.  VALENCIA: TIRANT LO BLANCH, S.L.. 2008

• conference contributions 

  • Un estudio de la dinámica del suicidio por sexos y provincias en España.  1-11. 2018
  • Suicide of Older People in Rural China 2017
  • Detecting clusters in the evolution of life expectancy at birth in French departments from 1833 to 1978 2016
  • Medición y explicación del baby boom en los países occidentales 2016
  • Origen histórico y permanencia de los bajos niveles reproductivos en el mundo occidental: el desarrollo del Estado de Bienestar 2016
  • Sinergias entre mortalidad y fecundidad durante la transición demográfica 2016
  • The baby boom in Western countries 2016
  • The historical decline of fertility and the development of the welfare states 2016
  • El descenso histórico de la fecundidad y el desarrollo del Estado del Bienestar 2015
  • La transición de la fecundidad en el mundo occidental y su relación con la mortalidad y las políticas del Estado de Bienestar 2015
  • El original crecimiento de la población en el camp de tarragona, 1547-1877: Una reconstrucción = The original population growth in the Camp de Tarragona, 1547-1877: A reconstruction. 2013
  • The Interaction of Demographic Processes in the Spanish Provinces, 1858-2011: An Event-Centered Approach 2013
  • Trafficking of women from neighboring countries into China for marriage within the context of gender imbalance 2013
  • Caring for carers of the Elderly in Spain: current frame and evaluation of programmes 2011