Male Scarcity is Differentially Related to Male Marital Likelihood across the Life Course

If marriage markets were only subject to the influences of numerical supply and demand, one would expect that the scarcer sex in a population would have a greater proportion married. Previous research has demonstrated that when males are scarce, they are actually less likely to be married, presumabl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Daniel J. Kruger, Erin Schlemmer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2009-04-01
Series:Evolutionary Psychology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/147470490900700210