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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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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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Mental Retardation: A Family Study
TL;DR: This is a monumental study of the relatives of 289 persons who lived at Faribault Minnesota State Colony for the Retarded during the years 1911 to 1918—each retardate averaged 25 years of residential care within the institution.
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Personality and voluntary childlessness
Margaret Avison,Adrian Furnham +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the association between personality and childbearing motivation, with a focus on voluntary childlessness, and found that personality plays a considerable role in influencing individuals towards, or away from, parenthood.
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By their words ye shall know them: Evidence of genetic selection against general intelligence and concurrent environmental enrichment in vocabulary usage since the mid 19th century
TL;DR: It has been theorized that declines in general intelligence (g) due to genetic selection stemming from the inverse association between completed fertility and IQ and the Flynn effect co-occur, with the effects of the latter being concentrated on less heritable non-g sources of intelligence variance.
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Iq and socioeconomic development across regions of the uk.
TL;DR: The paper provides evidence for the validity of the regional IQs by showing that IQ estimates for UK nations derived from the same data are strongly correlated with national PISA scores, and finds that regional IQ is positively related to income, longevity and technological accomplishment; and is negatively related to poverty, deprivation and unemployment.
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A long-term rise and recent decline in intelligence test performance: The Flynn Effect in reverse
Thomas W. Teasdale,David R. Owen +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report intelligence test results from over 500,000 young Danish men, tested between 1959 and 2004, showing that performance peaked in the late 1990s, and has since declined moderately to pre-1991 levels.
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Changing values and falling birth rates.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an explanatory framework and sketches in examples of how this framework aids in the interpretation of the monumental changes that have occurred since World War II in fertility marriage divorce and contraception in the 5 major non-European industrialized countries.
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Toward a more general economic model of fertility determination: endogenous preferences and natural fertility.
TL;DR: The 1976 Pennsylvania school economic model of fertility behavior as discussed by the authors was proposed as an alternative to the "Chicago-Columbia" approach that dominates the current work on fertility economics, and the major thesis of the Pennsylvania model is that in order to understand the variety of real world fertility behavior models of fertility determination must be expanded to include: determinants of family preferences for consumption children and fertility regulation and factors related to the fecundity or reproductive capacity of women.
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Bowling with our imaginary friends
TL;DR: Putnam [J. D. as mentioned in this paper claimed that Americans are socially and civically disengaged because they watch too much TV, and the analysis of the US General Social Survey (GSS) data indicates that people who watch certain types of TV are more satisfied with their friendships as if they had more friends and socialized with them more often.