全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP17475 How did the European Marriage Pattern Persist? Social versus Familial Inheritance: England and Quebec, 1650-1850

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP17475
	DP17475 How did the European Marriage Pattern Persist? Social versus Familial Inheritance: England and Quebec, 1650-1850
	Gregory Clark; Neil Cummins; Matthew Curtis
发表日期	2022-07-18
出版年	2022
语种	英语
摘要	Eric Turkheimer famously stated as a Law, "All human behavioral traits are heritable." But this poses a puzzle for pre-industrial demographic systems, such as the European Marriage Pattern, where individuals made behavioral choices that limited fertility. Why were these behaviors not replaced over time with those that generated higher fertility? Some have argued the solution to this puzzle is that limited fertility in the first generation was actually maximal fertility in subsequent generations. But we show that there was no fertility penalty to future generations from higher fertility in the initial generation in both England and Quebec. Here we argue instead that the European Marriage Pattern survived for more than 500 years because, for pre-industrial fertility behavior, Turkheimer's Law does not hold. Even though at the social level fertility limiting behaviors transmitted strongly, there was scant familial inheritance of fertility choices. So fertility enhancing deviations did not get transmitted within families across generations, and the European Marriage Pattern could persist indefinitely. In the paper we show evidence consistent with horizontal as opposed to vertical transmission of fertility behaviors.
主题	Economic History
关键词	European marriage pattern Pre-industrial fertility limitation Horizontal cultural transmission
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp17475-0
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/546575
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gregory Clark,Neil Cummins,Matthew Curtis. DP17475 How did the European Marriage Pattern Persist? Social versus Familial Inheritance: England and Quebec, 1650-1850. 2022.