• 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   Poor but tall. The height premium in the Canary Islands at the beginning of nutritional transition 

      Martínez-Carrión, José Miguel; Candela-Martínez, Begoña; Román-Cervantes, Cándido; Díaz-Carmona, Ginés Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2022-09)
      This article explores the beginnings of the nutritional transition in relation to height in male populations of the Canary Islands. With military recruitment data for the cohorts of 1860 and 1915, it shows the insular ...
    • 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 ...