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The long memory of poverty: the Historical Unsatisfied Basic Needs and the geographic patterns of standards of living in Argentina (and Spain) in the last 100 years
Regional inequality in living standards is a major social problem in the very top of most of the political agendas worldwide. However, their origins and ultimate causes are far from clear. ... -
Public borrowing and crowding out in Spain (1768-1808)
This paper aims at providing quantitative and qualitative evidence of a crowding out effect due to war borrowing at the end of eighteenth-century Spain. In the second section, I examine the two key links in the crowding ... -
Tracing the evolution of agglomeration economies: Spain, 1860-1991
This article attempts to quantify how the effect of agglomeration economies on population growth has evolved over time. Using district population in Spain between 1860 and 1991, recorded approximately ... -
The urban-rural height gap in late nineteenth-century Catalonia
This paper aims to explore whether and to what extent there was a gap in biological living standards between rural and urban areas. It focuses on the north-eastern Iberian region of Catalonia by making use ...