ISSN-L: 1698-6989
DOI: 10.33231/ihe

I am grateful to my doctoral supervisors, Mario Matus and Anna Carreras-Marín, as well as to the anon- ymous reviewers of this article, for their comments, which have significantly enriched the text. I also wish to thank Celia Cussen, Luz María Méndez Beltrán, and the participants of the VI National Congress of Economic History of Chile for their feedback on earlier versions of this article. Any errors or omissions are my sole responsibility.
This study was funded by ANID–Subdirectorate of Human Capital/National Doctorate/2022–21220899.