Age heaping is widely employed as an indicator of human capital, more specifically of numeracy. We re‐examine the age heaping–numeracy link in the light of evidence from …
In A Total Science, Jean-Guy Prévost charts how Italian statistics emerged as a full-fledged discipline, giving rise to a network of university chairs, journals, and other institutions. He …
By relying on the number of (surviving) boys per hundred girls observed in the population censuses as a cumulative measure of differential mortality during birth, infancy, and …
Agricultural Economists in Early Twentieth-Century Italy describes how Italian agricultural economists collected information about the economy of Italy, between the Giolittian and the …
M Breschi, M Esposito, S Mazzoni, L Pozzi - Annales de démographie …, 2012 - cairn.info
According to the Italian statistical official sources, in the decades after national unification (1861), Sardinia was the region with the lowest neonatal and infant mortality rate in the …
Il volume presenta un'analisi storica della sociologia del territorio in Italia, realizzata mediante fonti eterogenee tra cui interviste ad alcuni dei suoi protagonisti diretti. La …
Many studies in the history of statistics in the last decade have pointed out the importance of quantification in the process of nation-building (Desrosières 2000, pp. 50-52). Silvana …
F Galluccio - Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, 2012 - opar.unior.it
L'articolo ricostruisce la genesi e il ruolo svolto dalle istituzioni culturali che nell'Italia risorgimentale dichiaratamente si prefiggevano la diffusione degli studi geografici. Tale …