Mangos or bananas

Literacy and schooling in Andalusia

Examining the most likely causal mechanism behind higher literacy.

Jun 29 • javiero

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A little slice of Non-Andalusia in the middle of Andalusia

What happens when you put a bunch of non-Andalusians in Andalusia. Do they really become Andalusians?

Jun 20 • javiero

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May 2026

One and a half centuries of academic performance in Spain

What regional illiteracy in 19th century Spain can tell us about 21st-century academic performance.

May 31 • javiero

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That time when thousands of middle- and upper-class Cubans fled from a Cuban revolution.

When one mentions throngs of middle- and upper-class Cubans fleeing their homeland, the image that usually comes to mind is that of the early 1960s, the…

May 5 • javiero

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April 2026

What can Cuban baseball players tell us about Cuban economic history?

A bit of Cuban economic and migration history.

Apr 24 • javiero

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Some musings on agriculture and demography: Immigration in a Spanish province

How geography and weather influence migration patterns.

Apr 7 • javiero

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March 2026

Carnival Crazy: Another aspect of Canarian distinctiveness.

Maybe not crazy, but definitely divergent from the rest of Spain in mental health.

Mar 25 • javiero

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Another issue with the Mimetic mixing theory of Israeli fertility: Israeli billionaires

Going back to the subject of billionaire fertility, so we can move forward with evaluating the Mimetic mixing theory of Israeli fertility.

Mar 9 • javiero

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February 2026

Another paper (and tweet) claims that 1950s Cuba was "near the top" of Latin America...

And again, I dispute the claim that Cuba was ahead of most of Latin America around the time Castro arrived in power.

Feb 28 • javiero

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A follow-up to my child poverty post: it's worse than I thought.

It's worse than I thought.

Feb 21 • javiero

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Marriages of the parish of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception of Agaete 1614-1925

Well, I haven’t taken any pictures of the town of Agaete (googling them would be cheating), a charming town in the island of Gran Canaria, but I have…

Feb 11 • javiero

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January 2026

UNICEF's Child poverty ranking ranks very poorly

Is it true that 1 in 3 children in Spain live at risk of poverty or social exclusion?

Jan 8 • javiero

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