children. With such two features built into our model, and under the assumption that individuals care only for the propagation … they can achieve greater survivorship and enhanced genetic fitness. The explanation lies in the free riding behavior that … characterizes the interactions between competing fathers in the same promiscuous pair grouping. Kin ties could also be related to …

children. With such two features built into our model, and under the assumption that individuals care only for the propagation … they can achieve greater survivorship and enhanced genetic fitness. The explanation lies in the free riding behavior that … characterizes the interactions between competing fathers in the same promiscuous pair grouping. Kin ties could also be related to …

children. With such two features built into our model, and under the assumption that individuals care only for the propagation … they can achieve greater survivorship and enhanced genetic fitness. The explanation lies in the free riding behavior that … characterizes the interactions between competing fathers in the same promiscuous pair grouping. Kin ties could also be related to …

contributions, a lump-sum redistribution from fathers to mothers may make children better off, but both parents worse off, or vice … cost of both parents. Thus, proposals to redistribute income from fathers to mothers need to take into account socially … state) contributions to children's expenses. Individuals internalize these valuations. I examine a Cournot model of …

sharing by lower-order primates. We investigate this behavior in a model in which a father provides generously to his … father is in "retirement". In our formulation fathers provide better when (a) they are smarter hunters (b) they have a higher … generously for them in their "retirement". Better food provision by prime-age fathers is associated with brain-size expansion in …

' approach accounts for lower labour force participation and earnings of those with children (notably mothers), which is ignored …Estimates of the cost of raising children in Australia are typically based on the additional expenditure incurred by …-care costs are included. This paper questions the basis upon which children are considered to be a 'cost'. The fact that people …

, mating, and parental investment in children, we argue that marriage serves the purpose of attenuating the risk of mating … benefits women because of the public good nature of children. Able to realize Pareto improvements, marriage as an institution … is hence explained as the result of a societal consensus on the need to organize and structure mating behavior and …

We develop a theoretical model of mating behavior and parental investment in children under asymmetry in kin …