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Age heaping-based numeracy indicators have served as valuable tools to derive basic human capital estimates, especially for periods where other indicators are unavailable. However, the accuracy of individual age statements usually remains unknown, and due to the lack of precise information it...
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This paper quantitatively assesses to what extent signatures in marriage certificates can inform about literacy rates in pre-industrial states. The direct estimates are based on a novel and balanced random sample of marriage certificates for pre-unification Italy in 1815. Such figures are...
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Recent theoretical developments in growth models, triggered particularly by unified theories of growth, suggest that the child quantity-quality trade-off is a defining element in our explanation of a transition from Malthusian stagnation to a sustained growth path. This paper presents a model...
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claims that there was a dramatic reduction in either food availability or the average height of birth cohorts in the late …
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This paper aims to deepen the understanding of the transit of traditional to modern monetary system and its impact on economic growth in the Spanish economy over the first half of the nineteenth century. The main sources on which the study of the monetary policy in this period is based, in...
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this problem using the height of the Hangryu deceased, a dead person who did not have any acquaintances to claim the body …. We found that the height of male Hangryu deceased, ages 25 to 30, increased by 2.2 cm during the colonial period. This … such as when this growth in height started and what initiated this pattern need further investigation. …
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We estimate the height of various European populations in the first half of the 18th century. English and Irish male … and convict servants in colonial North America, whose height is estimated as between 66.4 and 67.0 inches (168,7 and 170 … height distribution in this period. The English were about as tall as Bohemians and French, but shorter than the Irish and …
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North American counterparts. The height gap between the rich and poor was the greatest in England, reaching 22 cm at age 16 … discovered, while the English rich were the tallest in their time: only 2.5 cm shorter than today’s US standards. Height of the … the height of the wealthy tended rather to increase until the 1840s and then levelled off. …
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We estimate the height of various European populations in the first half of the 18th century. English and Irish male … and convict servants in colonial North America, whose height is estimated as between 66.4 and 67.0 inches (168,7 and 170 … height distribution in this period. The English were about as tall as Bohemians and French, but shorter than the Irish and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440427
North American counterparts. The height gap between the rich and poor was the greatest in England, reaching 22 cm at age 16 … discovered, while the English rich were the tallest in their time: only 2.5 cm shorter than today's US standards. Height of the … the height of the wealthy tended rather to increase until the 1840s and then levelled off. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440428