Según García García (1986), pp. 96-99, en el norte de España la hacienda municipal dependía casi en exclusiva del arrendamiento de predios urbanos, de los repartimientos o de los impuestos sobre artículos de consumo. 8 Fuentes (1986), pp. 36-45 y Linares (1993), pp. 115-119. 9 Dentro de los distintos predios del patrimonio rústico municipal (tierras de labor, montes, dehesas y pastos), los únicos espacios que recibían un tratamiento unitario eran los terrenos dedicados al cultivo permanente. La cesión de estos terrenos implicaba normalmente la transmisión de todos los esquilmos que producían. Para el resto de * Incluye "Obras de nueva construcción" e "Imprevistos".

the expansion of adult height in Extremadura is interpreted as a test of the economic and social modernization of the region, especially of the culmination of the nutritional transition, at the same time as the suitability of literacy is verified to know not only the dynamics of educational inequality, but also the evolution and the degree of intensification of nutritional inequality.

This article studies the evolution of nutritional inequality, measured through the male adult height, in one of the poorest regions of Spain, in southwestern Europe: Extremadura. With a wide sample of statures of recruits born between 1855 and 1979, conscripted between 1876 and 2000, the research delves into the urban-rural height gap using coefficients of variation, tests of equality of means and proxy variables of a socioeconomic nature. The results of the analysis reveal that the strong anthropometric growth that Extremadura experienced since the last decades of the 19th century was accompanied by a less internal inequality. The lower heterogeneity did not eliminate, however, the urban-rural height gap during the period under study. In this sense, despite the absence of environmental differences between urban and rural areas in Extremadura, there was a clear rural height penalty in the region from the mid-19th century to the late 20th century. Rural punishment was fundamentally related to the greater presence of agrarian workers and the lower presence of wealthy families in villages and small towns. On the contrary, educational differences or differences in terms of nutritional health were not as decisive in the rural height penalization, at least when such differences are measured with the sources of military recruitment.

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