Stature growth in industrializing Argentina: The Buenos Aires industrial belt 1916-1950

Ricardo D. Salvatore

Explorations in Economic History, 2009, vol. 46, issue 1, pages 70-92

Abstract: A sustained long-term increase in average stature accompanied the process of import-substituting industrialization in the main suburban area of Argentina, the Buenos Aires Conurbano. This gain in net nutrition was attained before the rise to power of a re-distributionist political party: the Peronists. The article also provides evidence of a decline in average heights during the period 1939-1945, which challenges us to revise the traditional wisdom about the impact of World War II and Peronist social policies and its implications for the nutrition and health of children. The new evidence on heights shows also persistent social and regional differences over time that had not been documented before.

Keywords: Heights; Argentina; Biological; wellbeing; Peronism; Industrialization; Social; policies; Nutrition; Health; Workers; Urban; disamenities; Conservative; government; Buenos; Aires; Conurbano (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009

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