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Title: Numeracy, Inequality, Age Heaping, and Economic Growth: New Estimation Strategies for Western Europe and the U.S. (17th - 19th centuries)

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Publication Year: 2006

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Abstract: This article uses a combination of the age heaping method and anthropometric measures toexplore the pre- and early industrial inequality of numeracy. For France and the U.S., thedifferential numeracy between the upper and lower segments of a sample population of 27 and22 regions, respectively, is measured and the subsequent impact of inequality on welfaregrowth examined. For Ireland and England, 18th and 19th century evidence indicates thatIreland was a much more unequal society than England, whereas the northern U.S. had arelatively egalitarian distribution of numeracy before industrialisation took off on a largescale.

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Authors: Baten, Joerg; Crayen, Dorothee

Publisher: University of Tuebingen

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Topics: Methodology and Data Collection

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