The standard of living in Latin America during the twentieth century1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4352794 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pablo Astorga (0000-0002-8173-3112, Institute of Economic Forecasting), Ame R Berges (University of Oxford), Valpy Fitzgerald (University of Oxford) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 765-796 |
| Publication date | 2005-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0117 • E-ISSN: 1468-0289 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2005.00321.x |
| OpenAlex | W2143665972 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 56 |
| References cited | 29 |
New and consistent series for Latin American real incomes, life expectancy and adult literacy over the twentieth century reveal that living standards rose most rapidly between the 1930s and 1970s, a period characterised by increased state intervention and reduced trade openness. Within the region, Brazil and Mexico advanced most over the century as a whole despite the early start made by Argentina and Chile, although convergence between larger countries was accompanied by divergence from smaller ones. There was no sustained narrowing of the income gap with the US at all between 1900 and 2000 but some convergence in living standards due to improved life expectancy. Our new estimates of regional per capita income also permit a clearer comparison with both Europe and Asia. The major advances in living standards achieved in the middle decades of the century were closely related to early industrialization, rapid urbanization, and the extension of primary health and education. Subsequent economic volatility and fiscal fragility limited further increases in living standards, undermining social consensus on development strategy
Demographic economics · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Industrialisation · Latin Americans · Life expectancy · Per capita · Per capita income · Political science · Population · Sociology · Standard of living · Urbanization · Welfare · Demography · History and Politics in Latin America · History of Medicine and Tropical Health · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
Inequidad, desarrollo humano y política social
Atlantic Threads
Línea De La Pobreza Antes De Las Estadísticas Oficiales
At the Edge of the Storm
The Study of Borderlands Consumption
El Dompe , Los Yonkes , and Las Segundas
Confined to the Margins
Drawing Boundaries between Markets, Nations, and Peoples, 1650-1940
Using and Sharing
Disrupting Boundaries
Finding Mexico’s Great Show Window
Cinema on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Selling the Border
Domesticating the Border
On La Frontera and Cultures of Consumption
Promoting the Pacific Borderlands
El poder infraestructural en Uruguay durante la Primera Globalización
Latin American earnings inequality in the long run
More than 100 years of improvements in living standards
A new dataset of average years of schooling in Brazil, 1925–2015
The Developmental State and Labour-Intensive Industrialization
Venezuela's Economic and Social Development in the Era of Chavism
China's engagement in South America and Africa's extractive sectors
Public health departments and the mortality transition in Latin America
A century of economic growth in Latin America
From Structuralism to Neoliberal Depredation and Beyond
The age of mass migration in Latin America
Did Population Well-being Improve During Porfirian Mexico? A Regional Analysis using a Quasi-Human Development Index
Orden internacional, crisis neoliberal y agencia política en Bolivia durante el siglo XXI
Educação para as elites, financiamento e ensino primário no Brasil, 1930–1964
Energy as an indicator of modernization in Latin America, 1890–1925
Aduana, deuda y guerra
Latin American Inequality in the Long Run
Reconstructing labor income shares in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, 1870-2000
El Crecimiento Económico De Venezuela, Desde La Oligarquía Conservadora Hasta La Revolución Bolivariana
Late and Unequal
The living standard of miners in Biscay (1876-1936)
Wage inequality in manufacturing and the unskilled in Latin America
Educational Inequality and Its Determinants
Real Wages and Skill Premiums in Latin America, 1900-2011
The Expansion of Mass Education in Twentieth Century Latin America
Education and development projects in Brazil, 1932-2004
Tackling Health Inequities in Chile
Industrial Wage Inequality in Latin America in Global Perspective, 1900–2000
Embedding Neoliberal Reform in Latin America
Cepal and ISI
Changing Approaches to Development since 1950
Mobile Professionals and Metropolitan Models
Real Wages of Saltpetre Workers after the Crisis
Measuring Living Standards in Different Colonial Systems
Convergence and divergence of numeracy
Poverty Alleviation from the Margins
Contesting Power From the Periphery
Lifecourse socioeconomic status and cardiovascular illness in Latin America
Human Development as Positive Freedom
Social policy and economic development in South America
Progress, Poverty and Exclusion
The Macroeconomics of Populism in Latin America
Rising Life Expectancy
Economic Reform and the Process of Global Integration
The Penn World Table (Mark 5)
Market, Socialist, and Mixed Economies
Life during Growth
Human Development Report 1997
Human Development Report 2002
Vargas and Brazilian Economic Development, 1930–1945
The Working Class and the Mexican Revolution, c . 1900–1920
The World Economy
The Worldwide Standard of Living Since 1800
Living Worse and Costing More
Urbanization, Mortality, and the Standard of Living Debate
World Expansion of Mass Education, 1870-1980
| Unique citing works | 56 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,43 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 53 |