Spanish Abstract: Objetivo: analizar la geografía del estado nutricional en España y su evolución entre mediados del siglo xix y comienzos del siglo xx, etapa previa a la transición nutricional con alta prevalencia de malnutrición.Métodos: se utilizan datos antropométricos agregados...

Spanish Abstract: Este trabajo examina las diferencias urbano-rurales de la estatura durante las primeras fases de la industrialización española. Su objetivo es explorar el alcance de la urban penalty y los cambios del bienestar biológico en las ciudades frente al mundo rural, que estuvo más...

Spanish Abstract: En este trabajo se intenta realizar una primera reflexión sobre el papel del capital humano exterior en el flujo de nuevos conocimientos y tecnologías hacia la España Moderna, en especial durante el siglo XVIII. En él se pretende estudiar las distintas fases históricas del...

The presentation and analysis of a cost of living index and of different wage indices for the city of Madrid, covering the period 1680-1800 is the essential aim of this article. The accounts books of several charitable institutions have been the basic source of information for this research. The...

New estimates of the cost of living and of the wages in Palencia are presented in order to evaluate the effects of the agrarian capitalism in Castillian working class’ real income from 1751 to 1861. I obtained both prices (incluiding rents) and wages (earned by bricklayers and agricultural...

The Spaniards stature evolution between 1850 and 1930 as well as the relationships among nutrition, health, and welfare are analyzed. Data from various Spanish regions together with the reconstruction of a stature series with heights from about 130,000 conscripts from the southeast suggest...

Recent research of anthropometric history within the Iberian world shed new light on trends in nutritional status, health, living standards, and biological welfare since ancient times. It has been shown that nutrition was not worse during the middle Ages than at the beginning of modern times,...

This working paper central purpose is to study the magnitude and the evolution of mortality in the Guadalajara province between 1700 and 1865. The parish registers of baptisms and deaths in a sample of 25 local entities are the main source of data. The principal finding is the slightly downward...

In the last decades, economic historians explore human heights to analyze secular changes produced in the biological well-being of populations and the relationship between economic growth and human development. Anthropometric data are used to complement the knowledge we have about living...