Those numbers don't make sense unless you treat widower remarriage as polygyny. Polygyny in China was problematic in all sorts of ways but you can make that case fairly easily without resorting to wild claims about systemic effects like social unrest and war.
I think people's brains have been addled by watching too many costume dramas and these old men who were asking the questions were imagining that if they lived during the 18th century, they'd be the heads of important families, not farmers eking out an existence in some rural area. 3/3
One frustration I had when giving talks about marriage in historical China was that even though I said at the outset that polygyny was limited to a small number elite families, during the Q&A it was inevitable that some older male would raise their hand and want to talk about it. 2/3
I'd add that at least in China before the 20th century, polygyny probably wasn't as prevalent as commonly imagined. In our northeast Chinese rural datasets, it was very rare. By the late 19th century, it was also uncommon in the Imperial Lineage, except among close relatives of the Emperor. 1/3
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🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵
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High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market | PNAS
There is a widespread belief, in both the scholarly literature and the popular press,
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We've published a fair amount on fertility using these data, including responses to economic fluctuations, most notably our chapter in Prudence and Pressure (2010) direct.mit.edu/books/monogr...
Prudence and Pressure: Reproduction and Human Agency in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900
A study of human reproduction and social organization in preindustrial communities that reveals important similarities between Europe and Asia.This pioneer
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Pleased to see a new paper by others examining fertility in northeast China during the late Qing using our dataset, the China Multi-generational Panel Dataset Qing, which is available for download at @icpsr.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Family fertility choices as a risk management mechanism: evidence from Late Qing China
This study investigates deliberate fertility control as a risk management strategy in traditional agricultural societies, focusing on Late Qing China. Using disaster records and the China Multi-Gen...
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As President Trump ramps up efforts to send federal officers and troops into cities, criminologists are watching closely. Are the feds doing this in a smart way?
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As President Trump ramps up efforts to send federal officers and troops into cities, criminologists are watching closely. Are the feds doing this in a smart way?
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By itself it isn't fascism, but empirically there seem be a lot of pronatalists who are fascists, and vice versa. e.g. Musk and the tech billionaire crew.
what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.
I think there are a lot more academics here than on the other site
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