• openAccess   Living standards and rural-urban height gap during the early stages of modern economic growth in Spain 

      Martínez-Carrión, José Miguel; Pérez-Castroviejo, Pedro M.; Puche-Gil, Javier; Ramon-Muñoz, Josep-Maria Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2014-10)
      This paper examines the urban-rural differences of the height during the early stages of modern economic growth and industrialization in Spain. Its aim is to explore the extent of the urban penalty, and the changes of ...
    • openAccess   The urban-rural height gap: Evidence from late nineteenth-century Catalonia 

      Ramon-Muñoz, Ramon; Ramon-Muñoz, Josep-Maria Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2021-09)
      This paper aims to establish whether there was a gap in biological living standards between rural and urban areas in late nineteenth-century Catalonia, and if so, to determine its extent. The study makes use of a large ...