TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2001//
TI  - Gender and age differences in inheritance patterns
JO  - Human nature
A1  - Bossong, Bernd
SP  - 107
EP  - 122
VL  - 12
IS  - 2
N2  - By analyzing legacies in California from 1890 to 1984 Judge and Hrdy (1992) detected a gender-related difference: Men with children were statistically more likely to leave all of their property to a wife than were mothers to a husband. The authors argue that men were more likely than women to remarry and have additional children. Thus, in order to transfer their wealth to their mutual children, men can leave it to their wives but women can avoid risks by giving it to the children directly. This hypothesis was tested by two experiments in which subjects were asked to put themselves in the position of a person writing a will and allocate the wealth to the surviving spouse and the children. Age and sex of the heir/heiress were experimentally varied. The results support the inclusive fitness interpretation.<p /> <p>Language: en</p> 
LA  - en
SN  - 1045-6767
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12110-001-1019-5
ID  - ref1
ER  -