La Dona e Mobile: The Role of Women in Social Mobility in a Pre-Modern Economy

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Yale University; University of Murcia; Auburn University System; Auburn University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022050722000018
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 1-41
• 关键词: intergenerational occupational-mobility; UNITED-STATES; 3 generations; US; sweden; marriage; britain; earnings; income

摘要

We use data from marriage records in Murcia, Spain, in the eighteenth century to study the role of women in social mobility in the pre-modern era. Our measure of social standing is identification as a don or dona, an honorific denoting high, though not necessarily noble, status. We show that this measure, which is acquired over the lifecycle, shows gendered transmission patterns. In particular, same-sex transmission is stronger than opposite-sex, for both sons and daughters. The relative transmission from fathers versus mothers varies over the lifecycle, and grandparents may affect the status of their grandchildren.