Back to the ‘Normal’ Level of Human-Capital Driven Growth? A Note on Early Numeracy in Korea, China and Japan, 1550 - 1800

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dc.contributor.author Baten, Joerg de_DE
dc.contributor.author Sohn, Kitae de_DE
dc.date.accessioned 2013-02-05 de_DE
dc.date.accessioned 2014-03-18T10:04:08Z
dc.date.available 2013-02-05 de_DE
dc.date.available 2014-03-18T10:04:08Z
dc.date.issued 2013 de_DE
dc.identifier.other 378394215 de_DE
dc.identifier.uri http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-opus-67027 de_DE
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10900/47991
dc.description.abstract This paper draws on a unique data set, hojok (household registers), to estimate numeracy levels in Korea, 1550–1630, and evidence on Japan and China from the early modern period until 1800. We found that a substantial share of East Asians rounded their ages to multiples of five. However, the extent of age-heaping was quite low by global standards, even considering the potential sources of upward bias inherent in the data. Therefore, the unusually high level of numeracy in East Asia in the early 21st century was already present in the early modern period. The findings imply that in the Korean case, for example, the foundations of the human-capital based catch-up growth were laid very early. More broadly, we argue that Korea, Japan, and China returned to the growth-path at different points of the 20th century, and this return was pre-determined by their early numeracy development. en
dc.language.iso en de_DE
dc.publisher Universität Tübingen de_DE
dc.rights ubt-podno de_DE
dc.rights.uri http://tobias-lib.uni-tuebingen.de/doku/lic_ohne_pod.php?la=de de_DE
dc.rights.uri http://tobias-lib.uni-tuebingen.de/doku/lic_ohne_pod.php?la=en en
dc.subject.classification Humankapital , Wirtschaftswachstum , Rechnen , Korea , China , Japan de_DE
dc.subject.ddc 330 de_DE
dc.subject.other Human-Capital , Development , Growth , Numeracy en
dc.title Back to the ‘Normal’ Level of Human-Capital Driven Growth? A Note on Early Numeracy in Korea, China and Japan, 1550 - 1800 en
dc.type WorkingPaper de_DE
utue.publikation.fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften de_DE
utue.publikation.fakultaet 6 Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät de_DE
dcterms.DCMIType Text de_DE
utue.publikation.typ workingPaper de_DE
utue.opus.id 6702 de_DE
utue.publikation.source University of Tübingen Working Papers in Economics and Finance ; 52 de_DE

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