Moramay López-Alonso

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Associate Professor | Adjunct Associate Professor of Economics
Research Areas: History of Mexico and Latin America
Economic History | History of Public Health

Department of History

CONTACT

313 Humanities Building | 713-348-2249 | moramay@rice.edu

AREAS OF INTEREST

Thematic:

Economic History
Poverty and Inequality
Economics and Human Biology
History of Disease, Public Health and Medicine

Regional:

History of Mexico
History of Latin America
World History

Selected Publications:

“Height and Inequality in Post-1950 Mexico: A History of Stunted Growth” with Roberto Vélez-Grajales, Revista de Historia Económica, Vol. 37 no. 2: 271-296, April 2019
https://doi-org.ezproxy.rice.edu/10.1017/S0212610919000065
Escamilla-Guerrero, David, and Moramay López-Alonso. Self-Selection Of Mexican Migrants In The Presence Of Random Shocks: Evidence From The Panic Of 1907, WIDER Working Paper 2019/23 Helsinki: UNU-WIDER, 2019.
https://www.wider.unu.edu/publication/self-selection-mexican-migrants-presence-random-shocks/
"Using Heights to Trace Living Standards and Inequality in Mexico Since 1850" with Roberto Vélez-Grajales, in Has Latin American Inequality Changed Direction? Looking Over the Long Run, Springer International Publishing, 2017, pp:65-87
“Economics and Human Biology in Latin America,” in The Oxford Handbook of Economics and Human Biology, Edited by John Komlos and Inas R. Kelly, Oxford Handbook Series, Oxford University Press, 2016.
“Measuring Inequality in Living Standards with Anthropometric Indicators: The of Case of Mexico 1850-1986,” Journal of Human Development and Capabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal of People-Centered Development, (2015) Vol.16 no. 3: 374-396, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2015.1044820
Estar a la altura: Una historia de los niveles de vida en México, 1850-1950 (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2015).
Measuring Up: A History of Living Standards in Mexico, 1850-1950 (Stanford University Press, 2012)
“Physical Stature of Men in Eighteenth Century Mexico: Evidence from Puebla" (with Agustín Grajales Porras), Economics and Human Biology, Spring 2011.

Research Areas

Dr. López Alonso is an economic historian of Latin America. She is author of Measuring Up: A History of Living Standards in Mexico 1850-1950 (Stanford University Press 2012) winner of the 2013 Mexican History Book Prize awarded by the Conference in Latin American History with the edition in Spanish Published by Fondo de Cultura Económica in 2015. Her scholarship and research interests are interdisciplinary. Dr. López-Alonso regularly teaches undergraduate courses on Mexican History, Economic History, Poverty Justice and Human Capabilities and Biomedical Approaches to History. She the director of the PhD Dual Degree Program with Instituto Mora and Faculty Scholar in the Latin American Initiative with the Baker Institute.