TY - JOUR
T1 - Maternal investment in arranged and self-choice marriages
T2 - A test of the reproductive compensation and differential allocation hypothesis in humans
AU - Hasnain, Annemarie M.
AU - Snopkowski, Kristin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023
PY - 2024/1
Y1 - 2024/1
N2 - The Reproductive Compensation (RC) hypothesis and the Differential Allocation (DA) hypothesis predict that parents who mate under constraint will either increase or decrease, respectively, their reproductive effort and investment in offspring. One possible type of mate choice constraint in humans is arranged marriage in which parents or others choose mates. To test the RC and DA hypotheses in humans, we examine whether there are differences in parental investment between women in arranged marriages and those in self-choice marriages using data from the Indonesian Family Life Survey (n = 8393). Marriage type does not significantly correlate with parental investment except for fertility outcomes where women in self-choice marriages had more live births, living children, and greater marital fertility than woman in arranged marriages. Our findings better support the DA hypothesis than the RC hypothesis. We conclude that, like many other species, free mate choice is associated with increased reproductive success in this sample of humans.
AB - The Reproductive Compensation (RC) hypothesis and the Differential Allocation (DA) hypothesis predict that parents who mate under constraint will either increase or decrease, respectively, their reproductive effort and investment in offspring. One possible type of mate choice constraint in humans is arranged marriage in which parents or others choose mates. To test the RC and DA hypotheses in humans, we examine whether there are differences in parental investment between women in arranged marriages and those in self-choice marriages using data from the Indonesian Family Life Survey (n = 8393). Marriage type does not significantly correlate with parental investment except for fertility outcomes where women in self-choice marriages had more live births, living children, and greater marital fertility than woman in arranged marriages. Our findings better support the DA hypothesis than the RC hypothesis. We conclude that, like many other species, free mate choice is associated with increased reproductive success in this sample of humans.
KW - Arranged marriage
KW - Differential allocation
KW - Humans
KW - Indonesia
KW - Parental investment
KW - Reproductive compensation
KW - Reproductive success
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U2 - 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.11.004
DO - 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.11.004
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85178609220
SN - 1090-5138
VL - 45
SP - 99
EP - 110
JO - Evolution and Human Behavior
JF - Evolution and Human Behavior
IS - 1
ER -