Sex Differences in the Effects of Personal Resources, Family Resources, and Multiple Partners on Fertility

Econometric Modeling: Microeconometric Models of Household Behavior eJournal Pub Date : 2017-08-05 DOI:10.2139/ssrn.3014146

R. Hopcroft

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This paper examines the association of personal and family income and wealth on completed fertility and number of child bearing unions for men and women using newly released data from 2014 wave of the Survey of Income and Program Participation by the U.S. Census that contain the first national measures of complete male and female fertility as well as measures of multi-partner fertility. Results show that personal income and net worth are positively associated with total fertility and number of child bearing unions for men and negatively associated with total fertility and number of child bearing unions for women. Family income is negatively associated with fertility and number of child bearing unions for men and positively associated with total fertility for women. These results suggest that the source of income and wealth (either from the individual him or herself or from the individual’s family) influences the fertility of men and women very differently and conform to evolutionary predictions concerning the role of male and female status in fertility behavior.

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个人资源、家庭资源和多配偶对生育影响的性别差异

本文使用2014年美国人口普查收入和计划参与调查新发布的数据，研究了个人和家庭收入和财富与男性和女性完整生育率和生育联盟数量的关系，该调查包含了第一个全国性的男性和女性完整生育率指标以及多伴侣生育率指标。结果表明，个人收入和净资产与男性总生育率和生育联盟数呈正相关，与女性总生育率和生育联盟数负相关。家庭收入与男子的生育率和生育数目负相关，与妇女的总生育率正相关。这些结果表明，收入和财富的来源(来自个人本人或来自个人家庭)对男性和女性生育能力的影响非常不同，符合关于男性和女性地位在生育行为中的作用的进化预测。

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