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- The study analyzed 2090 British father and son pairs to explore the connections between social and geographical mobility, focusing on height, weight, and BMI.
- The findings indicated higher levels of social mobility compared to geographical movement, with socially non-mobile families also being less likely to migrate regionally.
- Upwardly mobile fathers and sons tended to be taller and had lower BMIs than their non-mobile and downwardly mobile counterparts, although geographical migration did not show significant relationships with height or weight.
Article Abstract
Using a sample of 2090 British father and son pairs the relationships between social and geographical intra- and inter-generational mobility were examined in relation to height, weight and body mass index (BMI). There was much more social mobility than geographical (regional) migration. Social mobility and geographical migration were not independent: socially non-mobile fathers and sons were more likely to be geographical non-migrants, and upwardly socially mobile fathers and sons were more likely to be regional migrants. Upwardly socially mobile fathers and sons were, on average, taller and had a lower BMI than non-mobile and downwardly mobile fathers and sons. In general, no significant associations were found between geographical migration and height or weight. Migrating fathers had a lower BMI than sedentes, as did their sons who migrated between 1965 and 1991. There was no significant interaction that indicated that social mobility and geographical migration were acting in a simple additive way on height, weight and BMI.
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