Evolution & Human Behavior
Volume 27, Issue 2 , Pages 104-120, March 2006

Sex, status, and reproductive success in the contemporary United States

Department of Sociology and Anthropology, UNC-Charlotte, Charlotte NC 28223, United States

Received 14 June 2004; accepted 8 July 2005. published online 27 September 2005.

Abstract 

This paper reexamines the relationship between status and reproductive success (at the ultimate and proximate levels) using data on sex frequency and number of biological children from representative samples of the U.S. population. An ordered probit analysis of data from the 1989–2000 General Social Survey (GSS) shows that high-income men report greater frequency of sex than all others do. An OLS regression of data from the 1994 GSS shows that high-income men have more biological children than do low-income men and high-income women. Furthermore, more educated men have more biological children than do more educated women. Results also show that intelligence decreases the number of offspring and frequency of sex for both men and women.

Keywords: Sex, Status, Reproductive success

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PII: S1090-5138(05)00061-9

doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2005.07.004

Evolution & Human Behavior
Volume 27, Issue 2 , Pages 104-120, March 2006

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