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Source: Kluwer Academic Publishers
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1. Doughty, Debby
Rodgers, Joseph Lee
Behavior Genetic Modeling of Menarche in U.S. Females
In: Genetic Influences on Human Fertility and Sexuality. J. L. Rodgers, et al., eds. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Keyword(s): Age at Menarche/First Menstruation; Behavior; Family Environment; Family Structure; Fathers, Absence; Fertility; Genetics; Kinship; Menarche/First Menstruation; Modeling; Siblings; Women

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Most previous research has been logically unable to disentangle the genetic and environmental influences on age at menarche. We present data on 1338 kinship pairs from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in a behavior genetic analysis, partitioning variability in menarcheal age into genetic and environmental sources. About half the variability in menarcheal age was related to genetic influences, h2=.54, and almost half to nonshared environmental influences plus error. No influence of the shared environment was found. Motivated by the evolutionary theory of Belsky, Steinberg, and Draper, the influence of family composition/stability was tested as a nonshared environmental influence. In line with previous findings, father absence was associated with a younger age at menarche. Residing with two parents under extreme living conditions may delay age at menarche. No association of family size, birth order, personality, income, or parental education with age at menarche was found.
Bibliography Citation
Doughty, Debby and Joseph Lee Rodgers. "Behavior Genetic Modeling of Menarche in U.S. Females" In: Genetic Influences on Human Fertility and Sexuality. J. L. Rodgers, et al., eds. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000
2. Olsen, Randall J.
The Relation Between the Rate of Return to Tenure, Earnings Growth, and Job Switching
In: Survival Analysis: State of the Art. J. Klein and P. Goel, eds., Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992: 435-448
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Keyword(s): Earnings; Gender Differences; Job Tenure; Job Turnover; Wage Rates

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Bibliography Citation
Olsen, Randall J. "The Relation Between the Rate of Return to Tenure, Earnings Growth, and Job Switching" In: Survival Analysis: State of the Art. J. Klein and P. Goel, eds., Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992: 435-448
3. Rodgers, Joseph Lee
Doughty, Debby
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Fertility Expectations and Outcomes Using NLSY Kinship Data
In: Genetic Influences on Human Fertility and Sexuality. J. L. Rodgers, et al., eds. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Keyword(s): Fertility; Genetics; Kinship; Sexual Behavior; Sexual Reproduction

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There has been recent interest in the research literature concerning the potential for genetic influences on fertility-related behaviors. Fisher's (1930) well-known theorem suggesting that the heritability of fertility-linked behaviors must eventually disappear (e.g., Plomin, DeFries, & McClearn, 1990) runs counter to a number of empirical findings concerning sexuality and fertility behaviors. Miller has recently developed a framework (Miller et al, 1999b) that casts fertility outcomes into the bigger context of fertility desires and expectations. We draw on this framework to investigate the role of broad genetic and environmental influences on a number of fertility attitudes, and link those to fertility outcomes. Our data come from recently defined kinship structure from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, and thus provide a large national sample in which to investigate these issues. Our findings suggest that both fertility expectations and desires have a heritable component, and virtually no shared environmental component. However, expectations have a systematically higher level of genetic influence than outcomes. These findings are both readily interpretable within previous frameworks, and also can be used to general future research agendas.
Bibliography Citation
Rodgers, Joseph Lee and Debby Doughty. "Genetic and Environmental Influences on Fertility Expectations and Outcomes Using NLSY Kinship Data" In: Genetic Influences on Human Fertility and Sexuality. J. L. Rodgers, et al., eds. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000