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SUBMITTER: Shenk MK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4822430 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 20160401 1692
The role that social status plays in small-scale societies suggests that status may be important for understanding the evolution of human fertility decisions, and for understanding how such decisions play out in modern contexts. This paper explores whether modelling competition for status--in the sense of relative rank within a society--can help shed light on fertility decline and the demographic transition. We develop a model of how levels of inequality and status competition affect optimal inv ...[more]