Clustering and Dispersal of Siblings in the North-Holland Countryside, 1850-1940 ; Räumliche Nähe und Distanz von Geschwistern im ländlichen Nord-Holland, 1850-1940

Why are some families scattered over a larger area than others? In this article we use a dataset with the complete life courses of all children from 210 families, originating from the same village in the commercialized North-Western part of The Netherlands. We experiment with multinomial logistic regression on sibling sets to discover the factors behind geographical sibling dispersal. The most important factors turn out to be the survival of the parents, the civil status of the siblings, and the size and gender composition of the sibling set.