Rethinking age-heaping, a cautionary tale from nineteenth century Italy
A swelling stream of literature employs age-heaping as an indicator of human capital, more specifically of numeracy. We re-examine this connection in light of evidence drawn from nineteenth century Italy: census data, death records, and direct, qualitative evidence on age-awareness and numeracy. Tho...
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University of Oxford
2016
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