Age misreporting: An empirical investigation using the New Zealand contingents in the Second Boer War

This is a first focused examination of age misreporting in military recruitment. We take advantage of an original dataset comprised of New Zealand military personnel records in the Second Boer War matched with birth historical records. First, we find that age misrepresentation is common: about one third of soldiers on our dataset misreport their ages. Second, we find that soldiers the estimated age-specific mean heights do not change significantly when we change from using reported ages to using true ages. Researchers can prioritise the investigation of true ages on those reporting to be 21 or younger.     

中国文化转型研究

人是文化的产物,人是时代的产物。文化通过价值观影响人。本文研究了中国文化转型特征,分析了文化如何通过价值观影响人,并借助人性质态测评模型,对不同年龄段的人性质态进行数据统计分析。研究结果显示,现代人的人性质态呈现多样性特征,不同年龄段的人的人性质态的差异显著,折射出社会文化变迁对不同年龄段人的影响是不一样的,不同时代造就具有不同人性质态的人。