Escuela de Administración Pública, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas, Universidad de Valparaiso, Valparaiso 2340000, Chile.
Proyecto Anillos, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas, Universidad de Valparaiso, Valparaiso 2340000, Chile.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Aug 28;17(17):6261. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17176261.
This article contributes to the study of inequality in the biological welfare of Chile's adult population during the nitrate era, ca. 1880s-1930s, and in particular focuses on the impact of socioeconomic variables on height, making use of a sample of over 20,000 male inmates of the capital's main jail. It shows that inmates with a university degree were taller than the rest; that those born legitimate were taller in adulthood; that those (Chilean born) whose surnames were Northern European were also taller than the rest, and in particular than those with Mapuche background; and that those able to read and write were also taller than illiterate inmates. Conditional regression analysis, examining both correlates at the mean and correlates across the height distribution, supports these findings. We show that there was more height inequality in the population according to socioeconomic status and human capital than previously thought, while also confirming the importance of socioeconomic influences during childhood on physical growth.
这篇文章为研究智利硝酸盐时代（约 19 世纪 80 年代至 1930 年代）成年人口的生物福利不平等做出了贡献，特别是关注了社会经济变量对身高的影响，利用了首都主要监狱 20000 多名男性囚犯的样本。研究结果表明，具有大学学历的囚犯比其他人更高；合法出生的囚犯在成年后更高；姓氏为北欧的囚犯比其他人更高，特别是比有马普切背景的囚犯更高；能够读写的囚犯也比文盲囚犯更高。条件回归分析，既考察了平均值的相关因素，也考察了身高分布的相关因素，支持了这些发现。我们表明，根据社会经济地位和人力资本，人口中的身高不平等程度比以前认为的要高，同时也证实了童年时期社会经济因素对身体生长的重要性。
