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Age heaping and its discontents: A response to Baten, Benati, and Ferber

Brian A'Hearn, Alexia Delfino (alexia.delfino@unibocconi.it) and Alessandro Nuvolari

Economic History Review, 2022, vol. 75, issue 3, 972-980

Abstract: This note is a rejoinder to Baten, Benati, and Ferber. We reiterate that, on close inspection, nineteenth‐century Italian census data contain a number of anomalies that sit uncomfortably with a straightforward age‐heaping‐as‐numeracy interpretation. In particular, we respond to Baten, Benati, and Ferber on the technical matters they have raised; then we show that our findings are robust to such criticism. Finally, we conclude with some general reflections on age heaping as a numeracy indicator.

Date: 2022
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