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Mon 29 Apr, '24
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Economic History Seminar - Katherine Eriksson (UC Davis)
S2.79

Title: Marriage and the Intergenerational Mobility of Women: Evidence from Marriage Certificates 1850-1920 

Abstract: Due to data limitations, long-run changes in women’s economic mobility are not well understood. Using a set of marriage certificates from Massachusetts over the period of 1850-1920, we link women and men to their childhood and adult census records to obtain a measure of occupational standing across two generations. Intergenerational mobility was higher for women than for men in the earliest 1850-70 cohort. Men’s mobility increases by the 1880-1900 cohort, whereas women’s does not, leading to a convergence. During a period with low married women’s labor force participation, the choice of a partner was crucial for women’s economic status. We find evidence of strong and increasing assortative matching prior to 1880, followed by declines to the 1900-20 cohort. Absent the increase in marital sorting, married women would have experienced the same increases in intergenerational mobility as did men in the sample. Finally, both men and women in the youngest cohort experience an increase in mobility and decreases in marital sorting, consistent with the widespread expansion of educational attainment during the “High School Movement."

Mon 20 May, '24
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Economic History Seminar - Eric Hilt (Wellesley College)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Mon 3 Jun, '24
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Economic History Seminar - Mara Squicciarini (Bocconi)
S2.77 Cowling Room

Title to be advised.

Mon 10 Jun, '24
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Economic History Seminar - Marco Tabellini (HBS)
S2.77 Cowling Room

Title: Homeward Bound: How Migrants Seek Out Familiar Climates (with Marguerite Obolensky, Charles A Taylor)..

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