Jeanne Cilliers
Researcher
‘Unobtrusively into the ranks of colonial society’ : Intergenerational wealth mobility in the Cape Colony over the eighteenth century
Author
Summary, in English
Intergenerational mobility studies are now expanding in three directions – including different regions and time periods, using different outcomes to measure mobility, and investigating the mechanisms that affect mobility. We investigate, for the first time, wealth mobility in the Cape Colony. We compare a number of outcomes, and consider several mechanisms to explain our results. Our data allow us to match at much higher rates than before, and also include daughters. We find very high mobility at the Cape and, in contrast to the existing historiography, higher rates for those at the bottom of the wealth distribution.
Department/s
- Department of Economic History
Publishing year
2019
Language
English
Pages
48-71
Publication/Series
Economic History of Developing Regions
Volume
34
Issue
1
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Topic
- Economic History
Status
Published
Project
- The Cape of the Good Hope Panel: Long-term studies of growth, inequality and labour coercion in the global south
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 2078-0397