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Mary K. Shenk
Researcher at Pennsylvania State University
Publications - 65
Citations - 1540
Mary K. Shenk is an academic researcher from Pennsylvania State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Kinship & Population. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 52 publications receiving 1157 citations. Previous affiliations of Mary K. Shenk include University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & University of Missouri.
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Intergenerational wealth transmission and the dynamics of inequality in small-scale societies.
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder,Samuel Bowles,Tom Hertz,Adrian Bell,Jan Beise,Greg Clark,Ila Fazzio,Michael Gurven,Kim Hill,Paul L. Hooper,William Irons,Hillard Kaplan,Donna L. Leonetti,Bobbi S. Low,Frank W. Marlowe,Richard McElreath,Suresh Naidu,David A. Nolin,Patrizio Piraino,Robert J. Quinlan,Eric Schniter,Rebecca Sear,Mary K. Shenk,Eric Alden Smith,Christopher von Rueden,Polly Wiessner +25 more
TL;DR: It is shown that intergenerational transmission of wealth and wealth inequality are substantial among pastoral and small-scale agricultural societies but are limited among horticultural and foraging peoples (equivalent to the most egalitarian of modern industrial populations).
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The evolution of inequality.
TL;DR: It is argued that while inequality may be produced by a variety of localized processes, its evolution is fundamentally dependent on the economic defensibility and transmissibility of wealth.
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A model comparison approach shows stronger support for economic models of fertility decline.
TL;DR: Detailed demographic data from recent fieldwork is used to determine which models produce the most robust explanation of the rapid, recent demographic transition in rural Bangladesh, and results indicate that fertility is best explained by models emphasizing economic factors and related motivations for parental investment.
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Intergenerational wealth transmission among agriculturalists: Foundations of Agrarian inequality
Mary K. Shenk,Monique Borgerhoff Mulder,Jan Beise,Gregory Clark,William Irons,Donna L. Leonetti,Bobbi S. Low,Samuel Bowles,Samuel Bowles,Tom Hertz,Adrian Bell,Patrizio Piraino +11 more
TL;DR: This article found that material wealth is by far the most important, unequally distributed, and highly transmitted form of wealth in these societies, while embodied and relational forms of wealth show much weaker importance and transmission.
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Production Systems, Inheritance, and Inequality in Premodern Societies: Conclusions
Eric Alden Smith,Monique Borgerhoff Mulder,Samuel Bowles,Samuel Bowles,Michael Gurven,Tom Hertz,Mary K. Shenk +6 more
TL;DR: The authors provided the first comparable estimates of intergenerational wealth transmission and inequality in premodern human societies, with data on more than 40 measures of embodied, material, and relational wealth from 21 societies representing four production systems (hunter-gatherers, horticulturalists, pastoralists, and agriculturalists).