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Measuring social mobility in historic and less developed societies

Part of Book Social Mobility in Developing Countries

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Measuring social mobility rates in earlier and less-documented societies

In societies where surnames are inherited from parents, we can use these names to estimate rates of intergenerational mobility. This paper explains how to make such estimates, and illustrates their use in pre-industrial England and modern Chile and...

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