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The inheritance of social status: England, 1600 to 2022.
Clark, Gregory.
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  • Clark G; Department of Economics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense DK-5230, Denmark.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 120(27): e2300926120, 2023 07 04.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37364122
A lineage of 422,374 English people (1600 to 2022) contains correlations in social outcomes among relatives as distant as 4th cousins. These correlations show striking patterns. The first is the strong persistence of social status across family trees. Correlations decline by a factor of only 0.79 across each generation. Even fourth cousins, with a common ancestor only five generations earlier, show significant status correlations. The second remarkable feature is that the decline in correlation with genetic distance in the lineage is unchanged from 1600 to 2022. Vast social changes in England between 1600 and 2022 would have been expected to increase social mobility. Yet people in 2022 remain correlated in outcomes with their lineage relatives in exactly the same way as in preindustrial England. The third surprising feature is that the correlations parallel those of a simple model of additive genetic determination of status, with a genetic correlation in marriage of 0.57.
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Texto completo: 1 Banco de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Movilidad Social / Estatus Social Tipo de estudio: Prognostic_studies Límite: Humans País/Región como asunto: Europa Idioma: En Revista: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Año: 2023 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Dinamarca

Texto completo: 1 Banco de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Movilidad Social / Estatus Social Tipo de estudio: Prognostic_studies Límite: Humans País/Región como asunto: Europa Idioma: En Revista: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Año: 2023 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Dinamarca