A Two-Tiered Demographic System: "Insiders" and "outsiders" in Three Swabian Communities, 1558-1914
| dc.creator | Guinnane, Timothy W. | |
| dc.creator | Ogilvie, Sheilagh | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T14:04:53Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T06:53:22Z | |
| dc.description | This paper presents first results from a project to reconstitute the demographic behavior of three villages in Württemberg (southern Germany) from the mid-sixteenth to the early twentieth century. Using high-quality registers of births, deaths, and marriages, and unusual ancillary sources, we improve on the family-reconstitution techniques pioneered by Louis Henry and applied to good effect by the Cambridge Group and other scholars. This paper focuses on simple, standard demographic measures, in order to provide a broad overview and support comparisons with other places. An extreme system of demographic regulation operated in these Württemberg communities until around 1870. This regulation created a two-tiered demographic system. A group of “insiders” were able to marry, and experienced both high marital fertility and high infant and child mortality. A second group, of “outsiders”, were prevented from marrying. Many, especially the males, left the community; those who stayed contributed to growing illegitimacy and associated levels of infant and child mortality that were even higher than for the offspring of “insiders”. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.145142 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/145142/files/DP%201021%20complete.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/145142 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/582032 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
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| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/145142 | |
| dc.title | A Two-Tiered Demographic System: "Insiders" and "outsiders" in Three Swabian Communities, 1558-1914 | |
| dc.type | Text |