@article{550d3d0f083c4c59aee9fe27dc7f38f4,
title = "Height in twentieth-century Chilean men: growth with divergence",
abstract = "This article provides the first series of Chilean adult male height for the whole of the twentieth century. The height of adult males increased by about 5.5 cm during the twentieth century, primarily during the second half of this period. This is the greatest improvement in biological welfare in Chilean history; Chilean males have never been as tall as they are today. Using a sample of around 36,371 individuals, we document the evolution of the average height of Chilean soldiers (male) born from the 1900s to the 1990s. This sample can be safely taken as a good proxy of the average height of Chilean male population for the period under study. We provide an explanation of both the main determinants of physical stature and the rapid increase in height in Chile over this period.",
keywords = "Chile, Height, Living conditions, Twentieth century",
author = "Manuel Llorca-Ja{\~n}a and Juan Navarrete-Montalvo and Roberto Araya-Valenzuela and Federico Droller and Martina Allende and Javier Rivas",
note = "Funding Information: Funding was provided by Consejo Nacional de Innovaci{\'o}n, Ciencia y Tecnolog{\'i}a (Grant No. Anillos-CONICYT-PIA-SOC180001) and Conicyt (Grant No. Fondecyt Regular 1180005). We are very grateful to the Departamento Cultural, Hist{\'o}rico y de Extensi{\'o}n del Ej{\'e}rcito de Chile (DCHEE), in particular to Colonel Eduardo Villal{\'o}n, Major Rodrigo Arredondo, Commander Pedro Hormaz{\'a}bal, Claudia Arancibia, Camila Pesse, Ra{\'u}l Carrasco, Enrique Lorca, Christian Capstick, Manuel Madrid, Francisco Alarc{\'o}n Parra, and Dora Basoalto, as well as Katharine Wilson and participants of the WEHC 2018, where an early version of this paper was presented. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.",
year = "2021",
month = jan,
doi = "10.1007/s11698-020-00205-2",
language = "English",
volume = "15",
pages = "135--166",
journal = "Cliometrica",
issn = "1863-2505",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
number = "1",
}