The effect of social status on women's age at first childbirth in the late seventeenth- to early eighteenth-century Korea

Byung-Giu, Son; Lee, Sangkuk

doi:10.1016/j.hisfam.2010.09.001

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“…This has been used as an indicator of socio-economic status in previous studies on CMGPD-LN data (e.g., Campbell and Lee, 2011; Dong and Lee, 2014; Lee and Campbell, 1997). For the KMGPD-TS, the nobi population we analyzed were already at the lowest rung of Chosun society, and we controlled for their socio-economic characteristics by using the social status of the household heads in three strata: high, middle and low, which is also common in studies based on Korean household register materials (e.g., Kim, 2009; Son and Lee, 2010). For the NAC-SN, we included a continuous variable for household landholding to account for household socio-economic status.…”

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Household context and individual departure: The case of escape in three ‘unfree’ East Asian populations, 1700–1900

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Kurosu

et al. 2015

Chinese Journal of Sociology

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In the past, many people were ‘unfree’ in the sense that their movement was restricted, and out-migration without permission was regarded and recorded as ‘escape.’ Even though such escape was common in the past, historical studies mostly neglect this form of migration. This paper examines escape in historical East Asia, focusing on the influence of household context and individual characteristics on the chances of escape, taking advantage of large-scale individual panel datasets from three adjacent unfree populations from northeast China, southeast Korea and northeast Japan in the 18th and 19th century. We not only find similar temporal, spatial, and age patterns of escape, but also similar patterns of associations between chances of escape and household context. In particular, the presence of dependent children and elderly in the household makes individuals less likely to escape. Other patterns of association also highlight the importance of gender and social class. Despite significant differences in political, social, and community context across these three East Asian populations, our empirical comparisons suggest important commonalities in terms of motivation driven by shared understandings of obligation to others.

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Household context and individual departure: The case of escape in three ‘unfree’ East Asian populations, 1700–1900

Dong

Campbell

Kurosu

et al. 2015

Chinese Journal of Sociology

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“…Women's age at first childbirth was estimated using household registers of late 17th to early 18th century Joseon dynasty. Family histories reconstructed by the connection of consecutive household registers to compensate for the defects of these registers confirmed that cultural factors such as social status and marriage customs are closely related to fertility (Son & Lee, 2010). Combining household registers and genealogical data from the 19th to the mid-20th century made it possible to determine the relationship between the social status of parents and the number of children.…”

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In recent years the development of historical databases reconstructing the lives of large populations accelerated. These considerable investments of time and money have greatly expanded possibilities for new research in history, demography, sociology, economics, and other disciplines. This special issue describes the content and design of 23 important historical databases. Authors were given the freedom to discuss a range of practical and technical decisions from evaluating archival sources to crowdsourcing data entry. The most common issue is nominative record linkage, but we find different choices between semi-automatic and fully automatic linkage techniques and various approaches for connecting diverse sources. Some databases describe special problems, like linking Chinese names, handwritten text recognition or the construction of a release in IDS-format. Other databases offer detailed descriptions of sources or discuss prospects for including new datasets.

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Social status, chaste widowhood, and trends in marital age gaps in post-Imjin Korea, 1606–1630

Han,

Lee

2024

International Journal of Asian Studies

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This study investigates the impact of warfare on nuptial patterns, focusing on the trends and characteristics of age differences within marriage. Specifically, it explores the socio-demographic outcomes of the Imjin War (1592–1598) and post-war reconstruction in Korea, using the earliest extant Chosŏn household registers, compiled between 1606 and 1630. Individual-level microdata were derived involving 2,336 married couples based on 11,749 entries in these registers, covering four administrative districts located in the southeastern region of the Korean peninsula severely devastated by the war. Factors such as status, property, warfare, social practices, and legal regulations influenced spousal age differences. First, social rank and family wealth played pivotal roles, with age gaps widening as a husband's socio-economic status increased. Second, females born after 1580, whose first marriages were affected by the Imjin War and post-war circumstances, experienced an average marital age gap of about ten years. Third, this effect was further complicated by the imposition of socio-legal rules on remarriage; that is, the yangban entailed a pronounced age difference owing to the Neo-Confucian norm of chaste widowhood. This study enriches the understanding of historical marriage customs in Korea and offers insights for studies on age disparity in marriage.

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The effect of social status on women's age at first childbirth in the late seventeenth- to early eighteenth-century Korea

Cited by 5 publications

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Household context and individual departure: The case of escape in three ‘unfree’ East Asian populations, 1700–1900

Household context and individual departure: The case of escape in three ‘unfree’ East Asian populations, 1700–1900

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Social status, chaste widowhood, and trends in marital age gaps in post-Imjin Korea, 1606–1630

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