Do Slower Life History Strategies Reduce Sociodemographic Sex Differences?

  • Chavarria Minera C
  • Figueredo A
  • Lunsford L
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This study examines the relations between sociodemographic sex differences and life history strategies in the populations of Mexican States. Sex differences in anatomy and behavior was measured with traits such as educational achievement, mortality, and morbidity. The data were obtained from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI) and sampled from thirty-one Mexican states and the Federal District (N = 32). An extension analysis was performed selecting only the sex ratio variables that had a correlation with the slow Life History factor greater than or equal to an absolute value of .25. A unit-weighted sex ratio factor was created using these variables. Across 32 Mexican states, the correlation between latent slow life history and sex ratio was .57 (p

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Chavarria Minera, C. E., Figueredo, A. J., & Lunsford, L. G. (2015). Do Slower Life History Strategies Reduce Sociodemographic Sex Differences? Journal of Methods and Measurement in the Social Sciences, 6(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.2458/jmm.v6i1.18771

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