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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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The effects of sex and childlessness on the association between status and reproductive output in modern society
Martin Fieder,Susanne Huber +1 more
TL;DR: For example, this paper found that the relationship between socioeconomic status and reproductive output is dependent on sex and the inclusion or exclusion of childless individuals, and that female choice appears to be a major cause of this association.
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Thirty years on - a large anti-Flynn effect? The Piagetian test Volume & Heaviness norms 1975-2003.
TL;DR: The idea that children leaving primary school are getting more and more intelligent and competent - whether it is viewed in terms of the Flynn effect, the government statistics on performance in Key Stage 2 SATS in mathematics and science - is put into question by these findings.
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Evolutionary approach to below replacement fertility.
TL;DR: This model predicts that psychological mechanisms regulating parental investment in offspring quality may lead to greater and greater investment in own and offspring education, a smaller desired family size, a delay in the onset of reproduction, and a reduction in the total numbers of offspring produced.
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Crime and Human Nature: The Definitive Study of the Causes of Crime. By James Q. Wilson and Richard J. Herrnstein. New York: Simon & Schuster, Touchstone, 1985. 639 pp. $12.95 paper
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Evolutionary psychology and intelligence research.
TL;DR: It is suggested that general intelligence may simultaneously be an evolved adaptation and an individual-difference variable.