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Los orígenes de la antropometría histórica y su estado actual

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  • Adolfo Meisel-Roca.
  • Margarita Vega A.

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En este ensayo estudiamos los orígenes académicos de una de las ramas más dinámicas de la historia económica en las últimas décadas. Aunque hubo unos antecedentes en la década de 1960 entre algunos historiadores de la escuela de los Annales, principalmente Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, fue realmente con los trabajos de Robert Fogel y sus asociados que esta disciplina tuvo un gran auge. Tal vez la ventaja que tuvieron estos últimos historiadores fue que incorporaron los aspectos biológicos y utilizaron el instrumental estadístico que manejan los cliometristas. A continuación, se presenta una revisión del estado de la investigación en antropometría histórica en las diferentes regiones del mundo.

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  • Adolfo Meisel-Roca. & Margarita Vega A., 2006. "Los orígenes de la antropometría histórica y su estado actual," Cuadernos de Historia Económica 18, Banco de la Republica de Colombia.
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    DOI: 10.32468/chee.18
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    Keywords

    Antropometría; calidad de vida; salud y bienestar; demografía; crecimiento económico; historia económica.;
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    JEL classification:

    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
    • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
    • C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models
    • N16 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Latin America; Caribbean
    • N36 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Latin America; Caribbean
    • N96 - Economic History - - Regional and Urban History - - - Latin America; Caribbean

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