Sources of Sibling (Dis)similarity: Total Family Impact on Status Variation in the Netherlands in the Nineteenth Century

Knigge, Antonie; Maas, Ineke; Leeuwen, Marco H. D. van

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“…For 25,433 men, I can even study the influence of 9,116 great-grandfathers. An advantage of using multilevel models is that they allow studying both conventional measures of family influence (father-son and grandfather-grandson correlations) and what are often regarded as more comprehensive measures of family influence (brother and cousin correlations) (Hällsten 2014 ; Jencks et al 1972 ; Knigge et al 2014 a).…”

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Beyond the Parental Generation: The Influence of Grandfathers and Great-grandfathers on Status Attainment

Knigge

2016

Demography

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Studies on intergenerational social mobility usually examine the extent to which social positions of one generation determine the social positions of the next. This study investigates whether the persistence of inequality can be expected to stretch over more than two generations. Using a multigenerational version of GENLIAS, a large-scale database containing information from digitized Dutch marriage certificates during 1812–1922, this study describes and explains the influence of grandfathers and great-grandfathers on the occupational status attainment of 119,662 men in the Netherlands during industrialization. Multilevel regression models show that both grandfather’s and great-grandfather’s status influence the status attainment of men, after fathers and uncles are taken into account. Whereas the influence of the father and uncles decreases over time, that of the grandfather and great-grandfather remains stable. The results further suggest that grandfathers influence their grandsons through contact but also without being in contact with them. Although the gain in terms of explained variance from using a multigenerational model is moderate, leaving out the influence of the extended family considerably misrepresents the influence of the family on status attainment.

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Beyond the Parental Generation: The Influence of Grandfathers and Great-grandfathers on Status Attainment

Knigge

2016

Demography

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“…Homogamy increased due to marriage restrictions and, with industrialization, it increased for higher social classes. Seiler suggests that the latter might be related to the temporary increase in inequality in the early phases of industrialization, a phenomenon sometimes called the 'Great Gatsby curve' (Krueger, 2012; see also Knigge et al, 2014;Nielsen, 1994). Elites whose fortunes grew in times of rising inequality might have tried to keep their fortunes among themselves by carefully selecting elite spouses for their children.…”

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“…Proponents of modernization theory assume an ongoing reduction in the importance of ascribed characteristicssuch as status of the family of originin favor of achieved characteristics. (Treiman, 1970; for reviews see Knigge, Maas, & van Leeuwen, 2014;van de Putte, 2005;Zijdeman & Maas, 2010). In a traditional society, the best predictor of the future earnings capacity of young adults was that of family of origin.…”

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A historical community approach to social homogamy in the past

Leeuwen

Maas

2019

The History of the Family

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This special issue is devoted to the theme of social homogamy, i.e. the likelihood of an individual marrying someone with the same social status, in past times. This introduction aims to situate each article within a broader framework of what unites this collection: a historical community approach to social homogamy in the past. This approach infuses sociological and historical theories in the historical debates on social homogamy. It does so using state-of-the-art research designs, with comparably coded large-scale datasets both on individuals and their families, as well as on the characteristics of the communities they lived in. Such a multi-level approach is deemed valuable as the communities considerably influenced marriage patterns.

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“…For instance , van Leeuwen and Maas (1997) demonstrated that in the province of Utrecht, three types of social mobility (in their terms, intergenerational, career and connubial) increased significantly in the period 1850 to 1940. Knigge et al (2014) similarly found that fathers' influence on son's occupations lessened over the course of the nineteenth century. Hastening these shifts were the nineteenth century's various demographic transitions, which were largely wrought by industrialization.…”

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Adult body height as a mediator between early-life conditions and socio-economic status: the case of the Dutch Potato Famine, 1846–1847

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2019

Economics & Human Biology

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Sources of Sibling (Dis)similarity: Total Family Impact on Status Variation in the Netherlands in the Nineteenth Century

Cited by 18 publications

References 32 publications

Beyond the Parental Generation: The Influence of Grandfathers and Great-grandfathers on Status Attainment

Beyond the Parental Generation: The Influence of Grandfathers and Great-grandfathers on Status Attainment

A historical community approach to social homogamy in the past

Adult body height as a mediator between early-life conditions and socio-economic status: the case of the Dutch Potato Famine, 1846–1847

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