Abstract
This note revisits the author's June 2009 PDR article, " 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.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 563-577 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Population and Development Review |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 2010 |
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Stem families and joint families in comparative historical perspective. / Ruggles, Steven.
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