Arbeitspapier
Parental height and the sex ratio
This paper tests the generalized Trivers Willard hypothesis, which predicts that parents with heritable traits that increase the relative reproductive success of males compared to females will have relatively more males than females. As in Kanazawa (2005) we test if taller mothers have relatively more sons in a pooled sample of Demographic Health Surveys (DHS) from 46 developing countries. Despite using a rich dataset and an array of statistical models that address some of the concerns raised by Gelman (2007), we provide further evidence against the hypothesis.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Working Paper ; No. 05/2011
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
- Thema
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evolutionary psychology
sex ratio
generalized Trivers Willard Hypothesis (gTWH)
height
Sexualität
Körpergewicht
Psychologie
Entwicklungsländer
Welt
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Arcand, Jean-Louis
Rieger, Matthias
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
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Geneva
- (wann)
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2010
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Arcand, Jean-Louis
- Rieger, Matthias
- Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Entstanden
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