THESIS
2016
x, 102 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Abstract
Family matters universally, but how and why in East Asia differs by patriarchy and family
systems. This thesis not only aims for a better comparative understanding of co-resident kin
effects on individual demographic disparities throughout the life course – child survival,
lifetime reproductive success, and old-age mortality – across East Asian populations in the
past, but also examines how macro family systems condition such micro family influence. I
make use of five recently available datasets, consisting of some 4 million panel observations
of more than 650,000 individuals who lived between 1678 and 1945 in northeast China,
northeast Japan, southeast Korea, and north Taiwan. Most previous comparative population
studies compare patterns of associations of family context and in...[
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Family matters universally, but how and why in East Asia differs by patriarchy and family
systems. This thesis not only aims for a better comparative understanding of co-resident kin
effects on individual demographic disparities throughout the life course – child survival,
lifetime reproductive success, and old-age mortality – across East Asian populations in the
past, but also examines how macro family systems condition such micro family influence. I
make use of five recently available datasets, consisting of some 4 million panel observations
of more than 650,000 individuals who lived between 1678 and 1945 in northeast China,
northeast Japan, southeast Korea, and north Taiwan. Most previous comparative population
studies compare patterns of associations of family context and individual behavior between
separate analyses on each population. This thesis, instead, standardizes, harmonizes, and
pools data from all study populations, and employs a multilevel modeling approach to
directly examine the effects of the presence/absence of kin and other family structural
characteristics at the micro level and to model their interactions with family system measures
at the macro level across populations and periods. This thesis provides detailed evidence that,
on top of the salient patriarchal influence shared among these East Asian historical
populations, macro family system and micro family context interact to shape individual
demographic behavior throughout the life course.
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