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ERIC Number: EJ683827
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005-Mar
Pages: 26
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ISSN: ISSN-0037-7732
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Parental Status and Differential Investment in Sons and Daughters: Trivers-Willard Revisited
Hopcroft, Rosemary l.
Social Forces, v83 n3 p1111-1136 Mar 2005
According to the Trivers-Willard (T-W) hypothesis there is an interaction between individual status and investment in offspring such that high-status individuals invest more in boys, and low-status individuals invest more in girls. Parental investment may be both physiological and affect the sex ratio of offspring, or it may be psychological and affect resource allocation to offspring. I test both components of the hypothesis using cumulative U.S. General Social Survey (GSS) data and find results that support T-W. Using years of education attained as an indirect measure of parental investment, I find that sons of high-status fathers attain more education than daughters and that the daughters of low-status fathers attain more education than sons. Supporting the sex ratio component of T-W, I find that high-status men have more sons.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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