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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 theory of the value of children
TL;DR: A theory of the value of children based on the uncertainty-reduction assumption is proposed and a range of hypotheses that follow both from this assumption and from a subsidiary assumption of marital solidarity enhancement are generated.
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A Century of Demographic and Cultural Change in Western Europe: An Exploration of Underlying Dimensions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the extent to which current changes in fertility and nuptiality in the region can be viewed as manifestations of a cultural dimension that had already emerged at the time of demographic transition in Europe.
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Gender and Religiousness: Can Socialization Explanations Be Saved?1
Alan S. Miller,Rodney Stark +1 more
TL;DR: The authors analyzed the relationship between traditional gender attitudes and gender differences in religious beliefs and behavior and found that women are more religious than men to the extent that being irreligious constitutes risk-taking behavior.
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The Emergence of Countercyclical U.S. Fertility
William P. Butz,Michael P. Ward +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an alternative mechanism through which aggregate economic activity affects fertility rates is presented, and the model proposed successfully predicts both procyclical and countercyclical variations in fertility in an unified framework across age groups and over a long time period.