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Social Mobility and Fertility

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Studies in a number of different countries, which have shown that rates of mobility between different occupational classes are more alike than they were expected to be, have raised questions about the mechanisms underlying social mobility. In preparation for a large-scale investigation, we have made two small pilot studies designed to clarify certain preliminary problems. In the second half of this paper we are going to concentrate on the second pilot study, whose concern was with fertility. Before proceeding to that discussion we shall in the first part give a brief outline of the main idea we hope to explore in the large-scale investigation. It has been rather more fully developed elsewhere.29

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  1. Department of Genetics, Cambridge, UK

    John Gibson

  2. Institute of Community Studies, London, UK

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    J. E. Meade C.B., M.A., F.B.A. (Professor of Political Economy) & A. S. Parkes C.B.E, M.A., SC.D., F.R.S. (Mary Marshal Professor of the Physiology of Reproduction) (Professor of Political Economy) &  (Mary Marshal Professor of the Physiology of Reproduction)

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Gibson, J., Young, M. (1965). Social Mobility and Fertility. In: Meade, J.E., Parkes, A.S. (eds) Biological Aspects of Social Problems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6580-6_5

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