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Title: Name-Based Estimators of Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from Finnish Veterans
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Publication Year: 2019
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Abstract: A fascinating development in intergenerational research is the use of names-first and surnames-to overcome data limitations. Name-based estimators are underlying innovative research on mobility across multiple generations, historical periods, or regions. However, it remains unclear how different methods relate to each other, and how reliable they are. This paper reviews name-based methods and validates them empirically, based on newly digitized data from Finland that contain names, name mutations, and direct family links. We show that the different name-based methods are closely related, but that their interpretation depends on sampling properties of the data that differ across studies. To demonstrate the reliability of name-based methods we compare the intergenerational mobility of the two combatant groups in the Finnish Civil War of 1918. Both conventional and name-based methods indicate substantially higher downward mobility among members of the socialist "Red Guard " as compared to the conservative "White Guard ". JEL classification: J62. ‡ We thank Ilkka Jokipii for excellent data collection and data preparation for this project. We are very grateful to James Feigenbaum, Claudia Olivetti and Daniele Paserman for the provision of samples and replication files to link records in the U.S. Census. We also thank seminar participants at SOFI at Stockholm University, Uppsala University, Purdue University, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, and the 2019 SOLE conference for comments. Support from the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Univer-sidades (Spain, MDM 2014-0431, ECO2017-87908-R and IJCI-2016-30011) and Comunidad de Madrid (MadEco-CM S2015/HUM-3444) is gratefully acknowledged.
Url: https://tsantavirta.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Santavirta_Stuhler_Names_0911.pdf
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Authors: Santavirta, Torsten; Stuhler, Jan
Publisher: Stockholm University
Data Collections: IPUMS USA - Ancestry Full Count Data
Topics: Migration and Immigration, Other
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