Current positions

Professor of History (Full Professor), University of Costa Rica.

Member of the Board of Editors, Hispanic American Historical Review (1998-2000)

Member of the Board of Editors, Cuicuilco. Revista de la Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, INAH, México.

Education

University of Buenos Aires, Licenciado in Sociology,  1967.

University of Paris, Institut d'Etudes du Développement Economique et Social (IEDES), Diplôme de Troisième Cycle "Techniques Superièures en Développement", 1970

University of Paris I, Doctorat de Troisième Cycle (Histoire), 1975. Mention: Très Bien .

Professional activities

Organizing committee, CLACSO Symposium on the economic history of Latin America, Lima 1978.

Member of the organizing committee, Seminar on Medicine and the decline of mortality, IUSSP and Fondation Merieux, Annecy, June 1988.

Member of the organizing committee, Conference of the Population History of Latin America, IUSSP and ABEP, Ouro‑Preto, Brazil, July 1989.

Member of the international organizing committee, 1992 Conference on the Peopling of the Americas, IUSSP, ABEP, SOMEDE and PAA (Population Association of America), Veracruz, México, May 18‑23, 1992.

Member of the Council, Asociación de Demografía Histórica (Spain), 1989‑1991.

Member of the Board of Trustees, Archivo Nacional de Costa Rica, 1989‑1994.

Member of the Historical Demography Committee, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, IUSSP, (1986‑1991; reappointed, 1992‑1996).

Consultant, Project of the Economic History of Latin America, Inter-American Development Bank/St. Antony´s College, Oxford University, 1996-97

Member of the organizing committee, 12^th International Economic History Congress, Madrid, 24 to 28 August, 1998. Session A2: Population and the Economy: from hunger to modern economic growth.

Consultant, Instituto Costarricense de Estudios Politicos and Konrad Adenauer Foundation, 1997-98.

Major publications

The Economies of Central America, 1860-1940‰, in Cárdenas, E,  Ocampo, José A. and Thorp, Rosemary (editors). An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America. Volume 1. The Export Age: the Latin American Economies in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Houndmills, Palgrave, 2000, pp. 85-118

 Malthus in Latin America: Demographic Responses durign the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries‰ (With Alberto Palloni and Elizabeth Arias) in T.Bengtsson and O.Saito (editors). Population and Economy. From Hunger to Modern Economic Growth. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 213-254.

Breve historia de Centroamérica. (A brief history of Central America), Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 1985, 176p. New edition revised and updated, 2000, p. 262. English translation: A Brief History of Central America. Translated by Ricardo B. Sawrey and Susana Stretti de Sawrey. Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1989, 223p. Italian translation: Storia dell'America Centrale. Trad. Chiara Bollentini. Milano, Edizioni Mondo Nuovo, 1990.

Breve Historia Contemporánea de Costa Rica (A Contemporary History of Costa Rica). México, Fondo de Cultura Económica ,1997, 240p.

"Deux siècles d'illégitimité au Costa‑Rica, 1770‑1974", (Two centuries of illegitimacy in Costa Rica) in Marriage and Remarriage in Populations of the Past, edited by J.Dupaquier, E.Hélin, P.Laslett, M.Livi‑Bacci and S.Sogner, London, Academic Press, 1981, pp. 481‑493.

"Patterns of Migration in Costa Rica, 1700‑1850", in Migration in Colonial Spanish America. Edited by David J. Robinson. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp. 279‑294.

"Indians, communists and peasants: the 1932 Rebellion in El Salvador", in Coffee, Society and power in Latin America. Edited by William Roseberry, Lowell Gudmundson and Mario Samper. Baltimore and London, The John Hopkins University Press, 1995, pp. 232-261.

“América Latina en la transición demográfica, 1800-1980” (The demographic transition in Latin America, 1800-1980) in La transición demográfica en América Latina y el Caribe. Vol. I, primera parte. México, IV Conferencia Latinoamericana de Población, 1993, pp. 63-92,

“Demographic Regimes in Latin America from the 18th to the 20th centuries”, in IUSSP, International Population Conference, Beijing, 1997, Vol. I, pp. 149-163.

“The Indian Population of Central America, 16th to 20th centuries”, in Rosero, Luis, Pebley Anne and Bermudez, Alicia (eds.) De los Mayas a la planificación familiar: demografía del Istmo.  San José, Universidad de Costa Rica, Programa Centroamericano de Población, 1997, pp. 25-35.  English translation in Pebley, Anne and Rosero-Bixby, Luis (eds). Demographic Diversity and Change in the Central American Isthmus. Santa Monica, Rand, 1997, pp. 97-117.

“The Central American Economies, 1860-1940”, in Thorp, Rosemary, Cárdenas, E, and Ocampo, José A. (editors). The Export Age: the Latin American Countries in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century. Macmillan, Inter American Development Bank, forthcomming. (Spanish edition, Fondo de Cultura Económica, forthcomming).

Infant and Child Mortality in the Past (co-edited with Alain Bideau and Bertrand Desjardins). International Studies in Demography, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1997. 312p.

"Estimación de la mortalidad adulta en seis parroquias del Valle Central de Costa Rica (1888‑1910) a partir de la información sobre orfandad" (Estimation of Adult Mortality in Six Parishes of the Central Valley of Costa Rica (1888‑1910) based on orphanhood

“La fécondité légitime à San Pedro del Mojón, 1871‑1936", Annales de Démographie Historique, 1986. Paris, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 1986, pp. 59‑79.

”La démographie historique en Amérique Latine: A la découverte d'une problematique spécifique" (with Alain Bideau). Annales de Démographie Historique, 1986. Paris, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 1986, pp. 7‑10.

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