The Mathematics of Sex and Marriage

Abstract

The models of this paper attempt to account for the age, sex, and marital status distributions of human populations. A marriage market develops around preferences for mates of different ages, and we study this market as changes in age distributions change the availability of mates. Unless we know how to relate marriages to the exposed population, we cannot even calculate rates that will tell us whether marriage is increasing or decreasing. Sections 11 to 16 below attempt an empirically based solution of the two-sex problem.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD1025516

Entities

People

  • Nathan Keyfitz

Organizations

  • University of California, Berkeley

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Age Distribution
  • Age Groups
  • Arithmetic
  • Availability
  • Contraception
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Human Population
  • Integral Equations
  • Intervals
  • Marriage
  • Mathematics
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Statistics
  • Time Intervals
  • Trajectories
  • United States

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  • Gender and Food Studies
  • Statistical inference.