Journal ArticleDOI
Intelligence and childlessness.
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
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
Citations
More filters
Journal Article
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.
Journal Article
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.
Journal ArticleDOI
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.
Journal ArticleDOI
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.
Journal ArticleDOI
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.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Relationship of fertility with intelligence and education in taiwan: a brief report
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of dysgenic trends in Taiwan by exploring the relationships among intelligence, education and fertility was estimated by using a representative adult sample, which showed that education and intelligence were negatively correlated with the number of children born.
Book ChapterDOI
Evolutionary Psychology and Crime
TL;DR: In evolutionary psychology, a psychological mechanism is an information-processing procedure or decision-rule which evolution by natural and sexual selection has equipped humans to possess in order to solve an adaptive problem as discussed by the authors.
Journal ArticleDOI
Three puzzles and eight gaps: what heritability studies and critical commentaries have not paid enough attention to
TL;DR: Why the quantitative genetics methods of partitioning variation of a trait into heritability and other components has very limited power to show anything clear and useful about genetic and environmental influences, especially for human behaviors and other traits is clarified.
Journal ArticleDOI
Intelligence, education and fertility: a comparison between the 1932 Scott Surveys
Journal ArticleDOI
Are babies consumer durables
TL;DR: For example, this paper argued that the number of children a couple will have is determined by economic behavior, i.e., whether they desire fewer children when poor, more when rich.