@article{Guinnane:145142,
      recid = {145142},
      author = {Guinnane, Timothy W. and Ogilvie, Sheilagh},
      title = {A Two-Tiered Demographic System: "Insiders" and  "outsiders" in Three Swabian Communities, 1558-1914},
      address = {2013-02},
      number = {1858-2016-152741},
      series = {Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper},
      pages = {67},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {This paper presents first results from a project to  reconstitute the demographic behavior of three villages in  Württemberg (southern Germany) from the mid-sixteenth to  the early twentieth century. Using high-quality registers  of births, deaths, and marriages, and unusual ancillary  sources, we improve on the family-reconstitution techniques  pioneered by Louis Henry and applied to good effect by the  Cambridge Group and other scholars. This paper focuses on  simple, standard demographic measures, in order to provide  a broad overview and support comparisons with other places.  An extreme system of demographic regulation operated in  these Württemberg communities until around 1870. This  regulation created a two-tiered demographic system. A group  of “insiders” were able to marry, and experienced both high  marital fertility and high infant and child mortality. A  second group, of “outsiders”, were prevented from marrying.  Many, especially the males, left the community; those who  stayed contributed to growing illegitimacy and associated  levels of infant and child mortality that were even higher  than for the offspring of “insiders”.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/145142},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.145142},
}