when | 2012 | |
who | Péter Földvári Bas van Leeuwen Jieli van Leeuwen-Li |
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what journal | The Economic History Review | |
what paper | How did women count? A note on gender-specific age heaping differences in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries | |
language | English |
involved project member(s)
Bas van Leeuwen | Peter Foldvari | Li Jieli |
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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.
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citation format
MLA |
Földvári, Peter, Bas Van Leeuwen, and Jieli Van Leeuwen‐Li. “How did women count? A note on gender‐specific age heaping differences in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries.” The Economic history review 65.1 (2012): 304-313.
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APA | Földvári, P., Van Leeuwen, B., & Van Leeuwen‐Li, J. (2012). How did women count? A note on gender‐specific age heaping differences in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. The Economic history review, 65(1), 304-313. |
Chicago |
Földvári, Peter, Bas Van Leeuwen, and Jieli Van Leeuwen‐Li. “How did women count? A note on gender‐specific age heaping differences in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries.” The Economic history review 65, no. 1 (2012): 304-313.
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Harvard |
Földvári, P., Van Leeuwen, B. and Van Leeuwen‐Li, J., 2012. How did women count? A note on gender‐specific age heaping differences in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. The Economic history review, 65(1), pp.304-313.
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Vancouver | Földvári P, Van Leeuwen B, Van Leeuwen‐Li J. How did women count? A note on gender‐specific age heaping differences in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. The Economic history review. 2012 Feb 1;65(1):304-13. |