Essays on the contextual determinants of demographic processes and family dynamics

This thesis consists of three self-contained articles studying whether and how different social contexts shape population and family dynamics. In the first article, I retest the Trivers–Willard hypothesis, which argues for a negative correlation between maternal stress and sex ratio at birth (SRB),...

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Main Author: Wu, H
Other Authors: Kashyap, R
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2023
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