Cámara Hueso, Antonio D.Martínez Carrión, José M.Puche Gil, JavierRamon Muñoz, Josep M.2024-12-182024-12-182019Cámara AD, Martínez-Carrión JM, Puche J, Ramon-Muñoz J-M. HEIGHT AND INEQUALITY IN SPAIN: A LONG-TERM PERSPECTIVE. Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History. 2019;37(2):205-2380212-610910.1017/S0212610919000089https://hdl.handle.net/10953/3598Se adjunta borrador revisado y aprobado, previo a su publicaciónThis article analyses the evolution of nutritional inequality in Spain among cohorts born between 1840 and 1964. With male height data (N = 358,253), the secular trend of biological well-being and intergenerational anthropometric inequalities are studied based on the coefficient of variation, height percentiles and socioeconomic categories (students, literate non-students and illiterate). The results reveal that the nutritional inequalities were very large in the mid-19th century. Anthropometric inequalities diminished among those born between 1880 and 1919 and increased again, although only moderately, from the cohorts of the 1920s. From the 1930s there was a cycle of sustained increase in height. Despite nutritional improvement, the data suggest that nutritional inequalities increased during the Franco regime, affecting the low-income population segments particularly.engCC0 1.0 Universalhttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/heightnet nutritional statusinequalitySpain19th and 20th centuriesinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess