Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/247069 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
EHES Working Papers in Economic History No. 139
Publisher: 
European Historical Economics Society (EHES), s.l.
Abstract: 
This study looks at human capital in Spain during the early stages of modern economic growth. In order to do so, we have assembled a new dataset on ageheaping and literacy in Spain for both men and women between 1877 and 1930 based on six population censuses with information for 49 provinces. Our results show that age-heaping was less prevalent during the second half of the 19th century than previously thought and did not decrease until the early twentieth century. By contrast, literacy increased throughout the whole period. Interestingly, age-heaping and illiteracy rates depict similar spatial patterns which confirm the stark differences in human capital within Spain. Lastly, we raise critical questions as regards sources, methods, and the interpretation of age-heaping.
Subjects: 
Spain
age-heaping
literacy
nineteenth-century
JEL: 
I25
N9
O15
N01
I21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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