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How Did Women Count? A Note on Gender-Specific Age Heaping Differences in the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries

Peter FöldváriBas van LeeuwenJieli Van Leeuwen-Li

出版	SSRN, 2012
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Ja3ezwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

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.