Evidence map›Paper›PMID 31964300›Full record

ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2020

Financial opportunity costs and deaths among close kin are independently associated with reproductive timing in a contemporary high-income society.

V Berg, D W Lawson, A Rotkirch

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Stratified Fertility: Age Norms, Ideals, Behaviors, and the Role of National Contexts.European journal of population = Revue europeenne de demographie · 2024
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

V BergPopulation Research Institute, Väestöliitto, Helsinki 00101, Finland.
D W LawsonDepartment of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3210, USA.
A RotkirchPopulation Research Institute, Väestöliitto, Helsinki 00101, Finland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Evolutionary demography predicts that variation in reproductive timing stems from socio-ecologically contingent trade-offs between current and future reproduction. In contemporary high-income societies, the costs and benefits of current reproduction are likely to vary by socioeconomic status (SES). Two influential hypotheses, focusing on the parenthood 'wage penalty', and responses to local mortality have separately been proposed to influence the timing of parenthood. Economic costs of reproduction (i.e. income loss) are hypothesized to delay fertility, especially among high childhood SES individuals who experience greater opportunities to build capital through advantageous education and career opportunities. On the other hand, relatively low childhood SES individuals experience higher mortality risk, which may favour earlier reproduction. Here, we examine both hypotheses with a representative register-based, multigenerational dataset from contemporary Finland (

Indexed as

DeathReproductionSocial ClassAdultAge FactorsChildDemographyFinlandHumansIncomeSalaries and Fringe BenefitsSocioeconomic Factorsgrandparentslife-history trade-offsmortalityparenthood wage penaltypostponement of parenthoodreproductive timing

Identifiers

PMID31964300
PMCPMC7015326

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.