Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/246945 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
EHES Working Papers in Economic History No. 14
Publisher: 
European Historical Economics Society (EHES), s.l.
Abstract: 
This paper offers new quantitative evidence on living standards in Bourbon America through the study of wages and heights. Neither were wages low nor were heights short by the international standards of the period. Thus, living standards of the Spanish Americans compare favourably with those of other regions of the world, including Europe. As in many parts of the West, a trend towards deterioration of real wages is observed in Spanish America at the end of the period. Our findings suggest that the Great Divergence in living standards between Spanish America and the developed Western countries might have taken place mainly after the Independence.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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