countries with high age heaping were more likely to sort into occupations with limited intellectual requirements. …

sharp jumps and clustering at certain ages. This phenomenon is attributed to age heaping, a term which describes people …’s ignorance to their age or people’s tendency to round their ages off. To a varying degree, age heaping exists in nearly all … certificates or alike). By measuring the degree of age heaping one is able to derive a simple proxy for human capital covering a …

, and Europe are presented, using age-heaping techniques. Assessing the determinants of numeracy, we find school enrolment … numeracy as measured by the age-heaping strategy for long-run economic growth. In a variety of specifications, numeracy …

, and Europe are presented, using age-heaping techniques. Assessing the determinants of numeracy, we find school enrolment … numeracy as measured by the age-heaping strategy for long-run economic growth. In a variety of specifications, numeracy …

countries with high age heaping were more likely to sort into occupations with limited intellectual requirements. …

. This phenomenon of age heaping has been viewed as a problem in previous research, especially in demography and epidemiology … differences in age heaping, while analysis of contemporary and historical datasets demonstrates the existence of a robust … correlation between age heaping and literacy at both the individual and aggregate level. To illustrate the method, we generate …

heaping" to measure cognitive ability in quantitative reasoning, or "numeracy". We construct a database of age heaping …Age data frequently display excess frequencies at attractive numbers, such as multiples of five. We use this "age …