Stem families and joint families in comparative historical perspective.
Stem families and joint families in comparative historical perspective.
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比较历史视角下的干系家庭和联合家庭。
DOI:
10.1111/j.1728-4457.2010.00346.x
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发表时间:
2010
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
Ruggles,Steven
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作者:
Ruggles,Steven
This note revisits the author's June 2009PDRarticle, “Reconsidering the Northwest European family system.” Using an array of contemporary and historical census microdata from around the world with simple controls for agricultural employment and demographic structure, I detected no significant differences in complex family structure between nineteenth‐century Western Europe and North America and twentieth‐century developing countries. This article adds two new measures designed to detect stem families and joint families. The results suggest that Western Europeans and North Americans have had a long‐standing aversion to joint family living arrangements, and that this pattern cannot be easily ascribed to demographic and economic conditions.