Using Family Histories to Understand the Intergenerational Transmission of Chronic Poverty

Robert Miller ()

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Abstract: A method of collecting family histories that would act as a means of linking households from the panel studies with individual life histories is proposed. The procedure used to construct a three-generation ‘social genealogical’ chart of the family and a strategy for interviewing individual family members sited across the generations of the family is described. A mode of ‘contrastive comparison’ analysis between the factual family history and the accounts of the family given by differently-sited family members is explained that would allow a holistic extra-individual view of the family to be constructed. [CPRC Working Paper 103]

Keywords: social genealogy; histories; households; holistic; members; individual family; history; social genealogical; generation; interviews; contrastive; comparison; poverty; research; intergenerational; quantitative; qualitative; transfer; transmission; poverty; ethical issues; contrastive (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-11
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