Background: During the twentieth century, Chile experienced an important reduction in
general mortality. Aim: To describe both general and infant mortality of Chile from 1909 to …

We studied the trends of height-for-age (HAZ) Z scores by socioeconomic status (SES)
groups of Chilean boys and girls aged 5–18 born between 1877 and 2001, by performing a …

We construct an anthropometric measure of living standards for White South Africans
covering 55 years using five different military sources. Accounting for different selection …

Este artículo analiza la relación entre la mortalidad en la infancia y el consumo de leche en
la Provincia de Santiago durante 1930-1962. El proceso estudiado comienza con la Ley de …

This paper studies the evolution of numeracy in Chile for cohorts born from the 1780s to the
1970s, providing a new series of this important indicator of human capital, essential to …

This preliminary work presents a first series of heights of male adults in Puerto Rico. The
sample, made up of 6000 prisoner records. the estimates were systematically assessed for …

In this article we provide the first long-term series of Chile's per capita consumption of a wide
range of key foodstuffs: cereals, legumes, potatoes, meats and dairy products from 1930 to …

This article traces inequality and numeracy development in the regions of Chile during the
19th and early 20th century. Inequality, measured with anthropometric methods, was …

This article contributes to the study of inequality in the biological welfare of Chile's adult
population during the nitrate era, ca. 1880s–1930s, and in particular focuses on the impact …

This chapter provides a comparison of the main demographic and human capital trends of
two Nordic countries (Norway and Sweden) and three Andean countries (Bolivia, Chile and …