Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/243239 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No. 1081
Publisher: 
Yale University, Economic Growth Center, New Haven, CT
Abstract: 
We use data from marriage records in Murcia, Spain, in the 18th century to study the role of women in social mobility in the pre-modern era. Our measure of socioeconomic standing is identification as a don or doña, an honorific denoting high, though not neccesarily, noble status. We show that this measure, which is acquired over the lifecycle, shows gendered transmission patters. In particular, same-sex transmission is stronger than opposite-sex, for both sons and daughters. The relative transmission from fathers versus mothers varies over the lifecycle, and grandparents may have an effect on the status of their grandchildren.
Subjects: 
Social mobility
Spain
Assortative mating
Marriage
Status
JEL: 
D31
J62
N33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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