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García Montero, Héctor

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    Wealth inequality in pre-industrial England: A long-term view (late thirteenth to sixteenth centuries)
    (WILEY, 2022) Alfani, Guido; García Montero, Héctor
    This article provides an overview of wealth inequality in England from the late thirteenth to the sixteenth century, based on a novel database of distributions of taxable household wealth across 17 counties plus London. To account for high thresholds of fiscal exemption, a new method is introduced to reconstruct complete distributions from left-censored observations. First, we analyse inequality at the county level, finding an impressive stability across time in the relative position of the English counties, perturbed only by the tendency of the South and South-East to become relatively more inegalitarian. Then, we produce an aggregate distribution representative of England as a whole, and we detect an overall tendency for inequality to grow from medieval to early modern times due largely to North–South divergence in average household wealth. We discuss our results in the light of the recent literature on historical inequality
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    Los niveles de vida en la España del siglo XVIII
    (Universidad Salamanca, 2019) García Montero, Héctor
    El trabajo plantea un estado de la cuestión sobre la bibliografía que ha abordado el estudio de los niveles de vida en la España del siglo xviii. Al mismo tiempo se sugieren posibles vías de investigación para el futuro. El texto se organiza en relación a tres tipos de indicadores: de bienestar material y desigualdad económica (PIB por habitante, salarios reales e índice de Gini), biológico-nutricionales (estatura media) y demográficos (mortalidad y esperanza de vida). La evidencia disponible apunta a un balance ligeramente positivo en términos de bienestar material, matizado por un incremento de la desigualdad económica en la segunda mitad de la centuria, una caída del estatus nutricional entre los nacidos en las últimas décadas del siglo y una caída de la tasa de mortalidad bruta en la segunda mitad guiada por el descenso en la mortalidad ordinaria y adulta.
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    Wealth inequality in Catalonia, 1400-1800. Sources, data and a case study
    (Firenze University Press, 2020) García Montero, Héctor; Nigro, Giampiero
    This work is part of the research carried out within the EINITE and SMITE projects for the case of Catalonia. In this chapter, firstly, a brief state of the art of research carried out in recent years on the evolution of economic inequality in the pre-industrial world is traced. Subsequently, through the previously existing literature and the study of the empirical evidence compiled for this work, the characteristics of the fiscal sources available for some Catalan localities, i.e. the books of estimes, vàlues or manifests, and the sample of localities studied in the EINITE/SMITE projects are described in detail. The second part of the work focuses on the analysis of a case study, the town of Balaguer.
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    Height, Nutritional and Economic Inequality in Central Spain, 1837–1936
    (MDPI, 2022) García Montero, Héctor
    This article analyzes the evolution of inequality in mean male height in central Spain considering the generations born from 1837 to 1915, measured in the drafts from 1858 to 1936 (n = 53,503). Mean adult height reflects a crude indicator of net nutritional status, a proxy for currently known measures of stunting and wasting. The results reveal a cycle of stagnation and decline in average height at the age of 21 for those born from the 1850s to the 1870s and a subsequent positive secular trend to exceed baseline levels. The coefficient of variation shows how inequality in height followed an opposite pattern, with an increase in the mid-nineteenth century and a subsequent decline, with an overall decline. The great migratory wave towards Latin America (1880–1930) barely affected the area studied here. The available evidence on the occupations and educational level of the recruits reveals a ranking in average height related to family background and personal income, educational level and literacy, propinquity to food and ownership and/or management of land. Therefore, socioeconomic status largely predicted adult height in Spanish men during the period. Reducing absolute poverty and increasing access to education remain cornerstones to reducing malnutrition, even in the current world.
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    Nivel de vida biológico y diversidad socioeconómica en la España central, 1837-1936
    (Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza-SEHA, 2023) García Montero, Héctor; Martínez Carrión, José Miguel; Ramón i Muñoz, Josep María