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How did women count? A note on gender-specific age heaping differences in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries
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Földvári, Peter, van Leeuwen, Bas and van Leeuwen-Li, Jieli (2012) How did women count? A note on gender-specific age heaping differences in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Economic History Review, Vol.65 (No.1). pp. 304-313. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0289.2010.00582.x ISSN 0013-0117.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2010.00582.x
Abstract
The role of human capital in economic growth is now largely uncontested. One indicator of human capital frequently used for the pre-1900 period is age heaping, which has been increasingly used to measure gender-specific differences. In this note, we find that in some historical samples, married women heap significantly less than unmarried women. This is still true after correcting for possible selection effects. A possible explanation is that a percentage of women adapted their ages to that of their husbands, hence biasing the Whipple index. We find the same effect to a lesser extent for men. Since this bias differs over time and across countries, a consistent comparison of female age heaping should be made by focusing on unmarried women.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Economic History Review | ||||
Publisher: | Blackwell | ||||
ISSN: | 0013-0117 | ||||
Official Date: | February 2012 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.65 | ||||
Number: | No.1 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 304-313 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2010.00582.x | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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