Rejoinder to Szreter
Author(s) -
Barnes Geoffrey,
Guinnane Timothy W.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the economic history review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.014
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1468-0289
pISSN - 0013-0117
DOI - 10.1111/ehr.12341
Subject(s) - classification scheme , class (philosophy) , scheme (mathematics) , positive economics , mathematical economics , epistemology , sociology , mathematics , philosophy , economics , computer science , data science , mathematical analysis
Simon Szreter's recent article replies to an earlier article we published in this journal, showing that central statistical results in his book Fertility, class and gender are seriously flawed. Szreter's reply asserts that a revised classification scheme and the use of weights provide results that support his original arguments. In this rejoinder we demonstrate that the revised scheme makes little difference. Our article did in fact use weights, and the use of weights with the revised scheme makes little difference. We argue that the weights used by Szreter are inappropriate in any case.