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Intelligence and childlessness.
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Analyses of the National Child Development Study show that more intelligent men and women express preference to remain childless early in their reproductive careers, but only more intelligent women are more likely to remainChildless by the end of their reproductive career.About:
This article is published in Social Science Research.The article was published on 2014-11-01. It has received 46 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Childlessness & Population.read more
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Reproductive ageing-turning back the clock?
Yvonne M. O'Brien,Mary Wingfield +1 more
TL;DR: If the current reproductive trends continue, many women will find themselves in the harrowing position of being unintentionally childless and will inevitably turn to assisted reproductive technologies in an effort to protect and preserve their reproductive autonomy.
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Do income and marriage mediate the relationship between cognitive ability and fertility? Data from Swedish taxation and conscriptions registers for men born 1951-1967
TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between cognitive ability and patterns of childbearing are mediated by income, education, income, marriage, and marriage histories, and the role of marriage for understanding the positive gradient between cognitive abilities and male fertility.
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The revolution in birth control practices of u. s. roman catholics
TL;DR: There has been a wide and increasing defection of Roman Catholic women from the traditional teaching of their Church on the subject of birth control over the past two decades and a resulting convergence of Catholic and non-Catholic contraceptive practices.
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A systematic review of the state of literature relating parental general cognitive ability and number of offspring
TL;DR: The authors conducted a systematic review of the literature on the relationship between general cognitive ability and fertility among modern humans, and provided a quantitative summary of effect sizes to the extent possible (given the limitations of literature).
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Contemporary phenotypic selection on intelligence is (mostly) directional: An analysis of three, population representative samples
Charlie L. Reeve,Satoshi Kanazawa,Gerhard Meisenberg,Heitor B. F. Fernandes,Tomás Cabeza de Baca +4 more
TL;DR: This article examined the effect of negative quadratic effects of IQ on fertility in three large and nationally representative datasets (NCDS, N = 5225, NLSY′79, NÂ= 7598 and Project Talent, N Â = 76,150).
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Parental investment and sexual selection
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A Treatise on the Family
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A Treatise on the Family
TL;DR: A Treatise on the Family by G. S. Becker as discussed by the authors is one of the most famous and influential economists of the second half of the 20th century, a fervent contributor to and expounder of the University of Chicago free-market philosophy, and winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in economics.
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Sexual selection and the descent of man, 1871-1971
TL;DR: In the first full discussion of sexual selection since 1871, leading biologists brought modern genetic theory and behavior observation to bear on the subject as mentioned in this paper, and the result is a remarkably original and well-rounded view of the whole concept that will be invaluable especially to students of evolution and human sexual behavior.
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The bell curve : intelligence and class structure in American life
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the evolution of cognitive class and education in the United States and the role of race and ethnicity in cognitive ability in the development of cognitive ability and the level of American education.