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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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Voluntary childlessness: A review of the evidence and implications
David E. Bloom,Anne R. Pebley +1 more
TL;DR: This article reviewed evidence on the incidence, correlates, and implications of voluntary childlessness in the United States and found that as much as 30 percent of recent cohorts of American women will remain permanently childless.
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Temperature and evolutionary novelty as forces behind the evolution of general intelligence
TL;DR: Temperature and evolutionary novelty together explain half to two-thirds of variance in national IQ and multiple regression analyses support both theories.
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The Savanna Principle
TL;DR: The Savanna Principle as mentioned in this paper posits that a hypothesis about human behavior fails to the extent that its scope conditions and assumptions are inconsistent with the ancestral environment, and its experimental corollary, that the Savanna principle holds (and the hypothesis fails).
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The correspondence between intention to avoid childbearing and subsequent fertility: a prospective analysis.
TL;DR: There are at least two potential explanations for instances where the correlates of unintended births in the prospective analysis differ from those identified in retrospective studies.
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Who remains childless
TL;DR: For men, particularly amongst those who had experienced a broken marriage, it was the most ambitious, the highly educated and those in professional occupations who were relatively more likely to be childless.