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Hopcroft, Rosemary L. Martin, David O. |
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The Primary Parental Investment in Children in the Contemporary USA is Education Human Nature 25,2 (June 2014): 235-250. Also: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12110-014-9197-0 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Springer Keyword(s): Children; Education; Educational Attainment; Gender Differences; General Social Survey (GSS); Parental Investments; Socioeconomic Status (SES) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper tests the Trivers-Willard hypothesis that high-status individuals will invest more in sons and low-status individuals will invest more in daughters using data from the 2000 to 2010 General Social Survey and the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. We argue that the primary investment U.S. parents make in their children is in their children’s education, and this investment is facilitated by a diverse market of educational choices at every educational level. We examine two measures of this investment: children’s years of education and the highest degree attained. Results show that sons of high-status fathers receive more years of education and higher degrees than daughters, whereas daughters of low-status fathers receive more years of education and higher degrees than sons. Further analyses of possible mechanisms for these findings yield null results. We also find that males are more likely to have high-status fathers than females. |
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Hopcroft, Rosemary L. and David O. Martin. "The Primary Parental Investment in Children in the Contemporary USA is Education." Human Nature 25,2 (June 2014): 235-250.
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Stulp, Gert Sear, Rebecca Schaffnit, Susan B. Mills, Melinda C. Barrett, Louise |
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The Reproductive Ecology of Industrial Societies, Part II: The Association between Wealth and Fertility Human Nature 27,4 (December 2016): 445-470. Also: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12110-016-9272-9 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Springer Keyword(s): Fertility; Gender Differences; Net Worth; Wealth Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Studies of the association between wealth and fertility in industrial populations have a rich history in the evolutionary literature, and they have been used to argue both for and against a behavioral ecological approach to explaining human variability. We consider that there are strong arguments in favor of measuring fertility (and proxies thereof) in industrial populations, not least because of the wide availability of large-scale secondary databases. Such data sources bring challenges as well as advantages, however. The purpose of this article is to illustrate these by examining the association between wealth and reproductive success in the United States, using the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979. We conduct a broad-based exploratory analysis of the relationship between wealth and fertility, employing both cross-sectional and longitudinal approaches, and multiple measures of both wealth (income and net worth) and fertility (lifetime reproductive success and transitions to first, second and third births). We highlight the kinds of decisions that have to be made regarding sample selection, along with the selection and construction of explanatory variables and control measures. Based on our analyses, we find a positive effect of both income and net worth on fertility for men, which is more pronounced for white men and for transitions to first and second births. Income tends to have a negative effect on fertility for women, while net worth is more likely to positively predict fertility. Different reproductive strategies among different groups within the same population highlight the complexity of the reproductive ecology of industrial societies. These results differ in a number of respects from other analyses using the same database. We suggest this reflects the impossibility of producing a definitive analysis, rather than a failure to identify the "correct" analytical strategy. Finally, we discuss how these findings inform us about (mal)adaptive decision-m aking. |
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Bibliography Citation
Stulp, Gert, Rebecca Sear, Susan B. Schaffnit, Melinda C. Mills and Louise Barrett. "The Reproductive Ecology of Industrial Societies, Part II: The Association between Wealth and Fertility." Human Nature 27,4 (December 2016): 445-470.
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