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Intergenerational Mobility of Daughters and Marital Sorting: New Evidence from Imperial China | NBER

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We study the role of marriage for women's intergenerational mobility during the Ming-Qing (1368-1911) period. Using status information based on the timing of marriage from family histories in Central China, already in the early 1500s it is the case that daughters from rich families attain higher status over their lifetime than daughters from poorer families. This intergenerational status persistence is partly due to marital sorting because daughters from high-status families tend to become the wives of sons who themselves come from rich families. Quantitatively, the correlation of 0.6 between the status of biological and in-law families means that marriage accounts for more than one third of total intergenerational status transmission, while not accounting for marriage overestimates mobility by more than 20 percent. Further underscoring the importance of marriage, typically the status of the in-law family plays a larger role for intergenerational status transmission than the child's bi

Intergenerational Mobility of Daughters and Marital Sorting: New Evidence from Imperial China | NBER Skip to main content Intergenerational Mobility of Daughters and Marital Sorting: New Evidence from Imperial China Wolfgang Keller & Carol H. Shiue Share X LinkedIn Facebook Bluesky Threads Email Link Working Paper 31695 DOI 10.3386/w31695 Issue Date September 2023 We study the role of marriage for women's intergenerational mobility during the Ming-Qing (1368-1911) period. Using status information based on the timing of marriage from family histories in Central China, already in the early 1500s

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