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Human Capital Inequality and Economic Growth: European and Global Trends in Comparative Perspective
| We use the age heaping method and anthropometric measures to explore the pre- and early industrial inequality of numeracy. For France and the U.S., the differential numeracy between the upper and lower segments of a sample population of 27 and 22 regions, respectively, is measured and the subsequent impact of inequality on welfare growth examined. For Ireland and England, 18th and 19th century evidence indicates that Ireland was a much more unequal society than England, whereas the northern U.S. had a
relatively egalitarian distribution of numeracy before industrialisation took off on a large
scale.
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