Baten, Joerg; Pelger, Ines; Twrdek, Linda - In: Economics & Human Biology 7 (2009) 3, pp. 319-333
This anthropometric study focuses on the histories of three important Latin American countries - Brazil, Peru, and Argentina - during the 19th century, and tests hypotheses concerning their welfare trends. While non-farm Brazil and Lima, Peru, started at relatively low height levels, Brazil made...