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Measuring social mobility rates in earlier and less well
documented societiesGregory Clark, University of California, Davis, LSE and CEPR
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Typical measures of social mobility rates demand a lot of information
• Reliable links between parents and children
• Comparable measures of income, occupational status, educational status
• For England the earliest conventional social mobility estimates are for 1851 and later.
• For India no conventional estimates before 1950.
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Surnames
• Using surname status instead of individual status we can estimate social mobility rates in even poorly documented societies.
• Examples, England 1200-2019, India 1860-2019
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Surnames
• At initial formation, surnames in many societies show substantial differences in status
• England – names of places (Berkeley, Windsor, etc) high status in 1086 and 1300
• India – Brahmin surnames – Mukherjee, Banerjee, Chatterjee, Ganguly, Bhattacharjee, and Chakrabarti
• Lower caste surnames - Shaw/Show, Rauth/Routh, Paswan, Dhanuk, Balmiki, and Mahata/Mahato - also Muslim surnames
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Another Source of High and Low Status Surnames – selective migrations, or selective religious conversions
• England – Huguenots 1685 – Pigou, Courtauld, Fourdrinier
• Egypt – Coptic surnames
• USA/Europe – Jewish surnames
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Rare Surnames
• By random chance some will be high status some low
• Since names are rare most people attach no significance to them
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Rare Surnames England – which are very high status, which very low?
Ahmuty Agace Adson
Angerstein Agar-Ellis Aller
Appold Aglen Almand
Auriol Allecock Angler
Bailward Aloof Anglim
Basevi Alsager Annings
Bazalgette Bagnold Austell
Beague Beridge Backlake
Benthall Berthon Bagwill
Berens Brettingham Balsden
Berners Brideoake Banbrook
Bigge Broadmead Bantham
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How persistent are these differences across generations?• Conventional estimates – intergenerational correlation of social status
only 0.3-0.5
• Markov assumption - across 3-4 generations descendants of initial elites and underclasses have average status. Correlation over 4 generations 0.03-0.13.
• Elite and underclass surnames would have average status within 100 years.
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Birth Period of Sons
Ln Wealth at Death
Higher Education
Occupational Rank
1840-69 0.403(.020)
0.458(.015)
0.529(.015)
1870-99 0.311(.018)
0.353(.014)
0.446(.013)
1900-29 0.247(.022)
0.246(.020)
0.415(.019)
All 0.352(.012)
0.358(.009)
0.465(.009)
Table 1: Convention Intergenerational Mobility Estimates, England, births 1840-1929Note: Standard Errors in Parentheses.
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Table 2: Difference in Status between Elite and Average Surnames, men
Birth Period Ln Wealth at Death
Higher Education
Occupational Rank
1810-39 3.628(.102)
0.328(.011)
0.318(.007)
1840-69 2.625(.079)
0.250(.008)
0.264(.005)
1870-99 1.604(.064)
0.166(.007)
0.179(.005)
1900-29 1.125(.069)
0.146(.009)
0.147(.006)
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Table 3: Intergenerational Correlations of Status Revealed by Surnames -England
Birth Period of Sons
Ln Wealth at Death
Higher Education
Occupational Rank
1840-69 0.724(.038)
0.762(.037)
0.831(.025)
1870-99 0.611(.038)
0.664(.044)
0.677(.027)
1900-29 0.701(.053)
0.877(.061)
0.819(.036)
All 0.677(.021)
0.763(.032)
0.772(.021)
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How do we reconcile these estimates?
• 𝑦𝑦𝑡𝑡 = 𝑥𝑥𝑡𝑡 + 𝑢𝑢𝑡𝑡
• 𝑥𝑥𝑡𝑡 = 𝑏𝑏𝑥𝑥𝑡𝑡−1 + 𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑡
• 𝑥𝑥𝑡𝑡 underlying transmittable status, 𝑦𝑦𝑡𝑡 observed status, b = 0.7-0.8
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Figure 2: Paths of Regression to the Mean for an individual family
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Averaging Across Surnames
�𝑦𝑦𝑡𝑡 = �̅�𝑥𝑡𝑡
�𝑦𝑦𝑡𝑡+1 = 𝑏𝑏�𝑦𝑦𝑡𝑡
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Example of surprising persistence of status – Darwin great-great-grandchildren
• 10 children, but only 27 great-great-grandchildren
• 11 notable enough to have Wikipedia pages/Times Obits
• 6 university professors, 4authors, a painter, 3 medical doctors, a well-known conservationist, and a film director
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When are such estimates useful?
How long will it take for the people currently in the bottom 10% of the status distribution to attain average status – 300 years.
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Surname estimates can be made with minimal information
• Share of surname type in population
• Share of surname type in target elite or underclass.
• % target elite or underclass represents in population
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b estimated from population shares
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All Surnames
Elite Surnames
All - Oxbridge
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Figure 4: Mean Status, Rare Elite Surnames, Oxbridge, 1830-2013
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Figure 8: Representation of Different Surname Types in West Bengal Elites, 2010-13
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Data
• Surname population shares from Calcutta Electoral Register 2010
• Surname shares projected back using censuses
• Doctor surname shares from Medical Registers 1860-2013
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Table 10: Relative Representation of Surname Types among Doctors in Bengal, 1860-2011
Period Muslim Brahmin Other Elite
Poor Hindu
Scheduled Caste
Mixed Hindu
1860-1889 0.04 4.19 3.39 0.02 0.57 1.49
1890-1919 0.05 4.73 2.92 0.03 0.73 1.42
1920-1946 0.13 4.30 2.60 0.01 0.72 1.45
1947-1979 0.15 4.27 2.71 0.04 1.01 1.40
1980-2011 0.10 4.05 2.15 0.06 2.26 1.51
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Table 10: Relative Representation of Surname Types among Doctors in Bengal, 1860-2011
Period Muslim Brahmin Other Elite
Poor Hindu
Scheduled Caste
Mixed Hindu
1860-1889 0.04 4.19 3.39 0.02 0.57 1.49
1890-1919 0.05 4.73 2.92 0.03 0.73 1.42
1920-1946 0.13 4.30 2.60 0.01 0.72 1.45
1947-1979 0.15 4.27 2.71 0.04 1.01 1.40
1980-2011 0.10 4.05 2.15 0.06 2.26 1.51
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Table 10: Relative Representation of Surname Types among Doctors in Bengal, 1860-2011
Period Muslim Brahmin Other Elite
Poor Hindu
Scheduled Caste
Mixed Hindu
1860-1889 0.04 4.19 3.39 0.02 0.57 1.49
1890-1919 0.05 4.73 2.92 0.03 0.73 1.42
1920-1946 0.13 4.30 2.60 0.01 0.72 1.45
1947-1979 0.15 4.27 2.71 0.04 1.01 1.40
1980-2011 0.10 4.05 2.15 0.06 2.26 1.51
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What characterizes societies with low observed rates of mobility from surnames?
• High rates of marital endogamy.
𝑦𝑦𝑡𝑡 = 𝑥𝑥𝑡𝑡 + 𝑢𝑢𝑡𝑡