Age and the Acceptance of Cliometrics
- 1 December 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Economic History
- Vol. 40 (4) , 838-841
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s002205070010021x
Abstract
Popular wisdom asserts, and life-cycle theories of human capital investment seem to imply, that older scientists are slower to accept new theories than are younger scientists. When this view is tested with evidence on the acceptance of cliometrics, however, the year-of-birth variable, although statistically significant, explains less than 10 percent of the variance in acceptance.Keywords
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