全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP14261 Cognition, Culture, and State Capacity: Age-Heaping in XIX Century Italy

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP14261
	DP14261 Cognition, Culture, and State Capacity: Age-Heaping in XIX Century Italy
	Brian A'Hearn; Alexia Delfino; Alessandro Nuvolari
发表日期	2019-12-31
出版年	2019
语种	英语
摘要	We re-examine the causes and interpretation of age-heaping in a case study of nineteenth century Italy. Italian census data allow us to calculate age-heaping measures by province, education, gender, and marital status. Our results validate the use of age-heaping as a proxy for human capital, but also reveal anomalies difficult to reconcile with a pure numeracy interpretation. Alongside individual cognitive ability, the census data clearly suggest a role for contextual factors in shaping age-heaping patterns. Direct evidence from Italian social and political history buttresses the case for culture and state capacity as determinants of age-heaping. Age-heaping and illiteracy are well correlated because both are reflections of an underlying process of modernisation, a process which, in nineteenth century Italy, was slow and incomplete.
主题	Economic History
关键词	Age-heaping Numeracy Human capital Italy
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp14261
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/543150
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Brian A'Hearn,Alexia Delfino,Alessandro Nuvolari. DP14261 Cognition, Culture, and State Capacity: Age-Heaping in XIX Century Italy. 2019.