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Determinants of nutritional differences in mediterranean rural Spain, 1840-1965 birth cohorts: a comparison between irrigated and dry farming agriculture

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dc.contributor.authorAyuda, María-Isabel
dc.contributor.authorPuche, Javier
dc.contributor.authorMartínez Carrión, José Miguel
dc.contributor.departmentEconomía Aplicada
dc.contributor.otherFacultad de Economía y Empresa
dc.date.accessioned2026-01-20T12:56:13Z
dc.date.available2026-01-20T12:56:13Z
dc.date.copyright© 2022 The Author(s)
dc.date.issued2022-05-05
dc.description.abstractAnthropometric studies have given much attention to the impact of industrialization and urbanization on the biological standards of living of urban populations. Instead, we know less about the evolution of height and the disparities within the rural world and how they have changed during the modern economic growth process. This article analyzes the evolution and the determining factors that would explain the inequality of the biological welfare of a group of rural populations in Mediterranean Spain. Using a database of the heights of military conscripts (N = 146,041) of the study area, a comparison is made of the biological well-being of the cohorts born between 1840 and 1965 in different rural environments (irrigated vs. dry farming). The results show that the recruits residing in irrigated areas were taller than those in dry farming areas and that the nutritional differences were greater among the latter. The advantage of the heights in irrigated areas widened with the development of commercial agriculture at the end of the nineteenth century and, although it began to reduce from the early decades of the twentieth century, the anthropometric gap persisted throughout the period analyzed. The data also suggest that the distribution of income was also more unequal in the dry farming areas, where the diet was less varied and rich than in the irrigated areas. This situation could be largely explained by the existence of low productivity agriculture in these dry farming areas, among other possible factors.
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dc.identifier.citationSocial Science History (2022), 46, 585–616
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2022.11
dc.identifier.eissn1527-8034
dc.identifier.issn0145-5532
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10201/189229
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherCambridge University Press
dc.relationMinistry of Science and Innovation of the Government of Spain (Projects PID2020-113793GB-I00, PID2019-106822RB-I00, PID2019-109470GB-I00, PGC2018-095529-B-I00, HAR2016-76814-C2-2-P, and Research Network RED2018-102413-T); and from the Government of Aragon and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) (Research Groups S55_20R and S40_20R).
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-science-history/article/determinants-of-nutritional-differences-in-mediterranean-rural-spain-18401965-birth-cohorts-a-comparison-between-irrigated-and-dry-farming-agriculture/6C203035A1A0AE80C870B7AC5ED06B1E
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dc.subjectBiological inequality
dc.subjectIrrigated and dry farming
dc.subjectDeterminants
dc.subjectMediterranean rural Spain
dc.subjectHeigh
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dc.titleDeterminants of nutritional differences in mediterranean rural Spain, 1840-1965 birth cohorts: a comparison between irrigated and dry farming agriculture
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