Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/259478 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
QUCEH Working Paper Series No. 22-07
Publisher: 
Queen's University Centre for Economic History (QUCEH), Belfast
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
age heaping
human capital
demography
JEL: 
N33
J10
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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