preference societies, fertility increases for low-status women and decreases for high-status women. An exploration of the … socioeconomic status women, tariff cuts increase the likelihood of a female birth and these daughters are less likely to die during … infancy and childhood. On the contrary, high-status women are less likely to give birth to girls and their daughters have …

influence, this study examines how adult siblings influenced each other’s status attainment processes, an issue largely … propose that, in times of rapid social change, sibling influence is more effective in generating status gain than parental …