Numeracy in early modern Korea, Japan, and China: The age-heaping approach
© 2017 Elsevier B.V. This study first draws on a unique data set, hojok (household registers), to estimate numeracy levels in Korea from the period 1550–1630. We add evidence from Japan and China from the early modern period until 1800 to obtain human capital estimates for East Asia. We find that nu...
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2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/72067 |