The stem family and industrialization in Catalonia (1900–1936)

Borderías, Cristina; Ferrer-Alòs, Llorenç

doi:10.1080/1081602x.2016.1242083

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“…The relationship between nuclear families and immigrant families has been observed in other Catalan industrial areas. However, over the years, these nuclear families became stem families, which was, in fact, the predominant system in Catalonia through the figure of the "hereu" (heir) [50][51][52][53]. Interestingly, the reduction in birth rates and family size ran parallel to an increase in the average height of young males, which rose around 2.5 cm over the same period, from 160.8 to 163.3 cm (see Figure 2).…”

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Sibship Size, Height and Cohort Selection: A Methodological Approach

Ramón-Muñoz

Ramon-Muñoz

Candela-Martínez

2021

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This article deals with the historical relationship between the number of siblings in a family or household and height, a proxy for biological living standards. Ideally, this relationship is better assessed when we have evidence on the exact number of siblings in a family from its constitution onwards. However, this generally requires applying family reconstitution techniques, which, unfortunately, is not always possible. In this latter case, scholars must generally settle for considering only particular benchmark years using population censuses, from which family and household structures are derived. These data are then linked to the height data for the young males of the family or household. Height data are generally obtained from military records. In this matching process, several decisions have to be taken, which, in turn, are determined by source availability and the number of available observations. Using data from late 19th-century Catalonia, we explore whether the methodology used in matching population censuses and military records as described above might affect the relationship between sibship size and biological living standards and, if so, to what extent. We conclude that, while contextual factors cannot be neglected, the methodological decisions made in the initial steps of research also play a role in assessing this relationship.

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Sibship Size, Height and Cohort Selection: A Methodological Approach

Ramón-Muñoz

Ramon-Muñoz

Candela-Martínez

2021

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“…Moreover, the Baix Llobregat region was traditionally featured by the strong presence of stem families. Nowadays, this area is still shaped by strong family ties (Reher, 2004;Fauve-Chamoux, 2009;Borderías and Ferrer, 2017;Esping-Andersen, 1999). Thus, the BALL Database provides an interesting and complete socioeconomic and socialhistorical "lab" for studying the demographic, familial and individual responses to a transforming world.…”

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Chapter 2. The Baix Llobregat (BALL) Demographic Database, between Historical Demography and Computer Vision (nineteenth–twentieth centuries)

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Nominative Data in Demographic Research in the East and the West

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Family Types and Intimate Partner Violence: A Historical Perspective

Tur-Prats

2019

The Review of Economics and Statistics

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This paper examines the long-term determinants of intimate partner violence (IPV) by analyzing its relationship with traditional family structures: stem families in which one child stays in the parental household and nuclear families in which all children leave the household upon marriage. My hypothesis is that coresidence with a mother-in-law increases a wife's contribution to nondomestic work, which may decrease the level of violence. I find that areas where stem families were socially predominant in the past currently have a lower IPV rate, and use differences in inheritance laws in medieval times as an instrument for the different family types.

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The stem family and industrialization in Catalonia (1900–1936)

Cited by 4 publications

References 23 publications

Sibship Size, Height and Cohort Selection: A Methodological Approach

Sibship Size, Height and Cohort Selection: A Methodological Approach

Chapter 2. The Baix Llobregat (BALL) Demographic Database, between Historical Demography and Computer Vision (nineteenth–twentieth centuries)

Family Types and Intimate Partner Violence: A Historical Perspective

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