Rethinking age heaping: a cautionary tale from nineteenth-century Italy
Age heaping is widely employed as an indicator of human capital, more specifically of numeracy. We re-examine the age heaping–numeracy link in the light of evidence from nineteenth-century Italian censuses, in which education explains little of the variation in age heaping. We argue that in general...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2021
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