Demography and age heaping: Solving Ireland's post-famine digit preference puzzle

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Age heaping in Ireland worsened in the years after the Great Irish Famine, even as other measures of educational attainment improved. We show how demography can account for this seemingly conflicting pattern. Specifically, we argue that a greater propensity to emigrate typified the youngest segment (23-32-year-olds) used in conventional indices of digit preference. Quantification of heaping must be interpreted in light of an older underlying population which is more likely to heap. We propose how digit preference indices can adjust for such demographic change by introducing age standardisation.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: QUCEH Working Paper Series ; No. 22-07

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: Pre-1913 ; Demographic Economics: General
• Thema: age heaping ; human capital ; demography

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): McLaughlin, Eoin ; Colvin, Christopher L. ; Henderson, Stuart
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Queen's University Centre for Economic History (QUCEH)
• (wo): Belfast
• (wann): 2022

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/259478
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ