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List of works by Mary K. Shenk

A model comparison approach shows stronger support for economic models of fertility decline ⬇️

scientific article published on April 29, 2013

Comparative study of reproductive skew and pair-bond stability using genealogies from 80 small-scale human societies

scientific article published in October 2015

Differences between sons and daughters in the intergenerational transmission of wealth

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

Does absence matter?: a comparison of three types of father absence in rural Bangladesh

scientific article published on March 2013

Does gender structure social networks across domains of cooperation? An exploration of gendered networks among matrilineal and patrilineal Mosuo

scientific article published on 28 November 2022

Dowry and Public Policy in Contemporary India : The Behavioral Ecology of a "Social Evil".

scientific article

Factors influencing taxonomic unevenness in scientific research: a mixed-methods case study of non-human primate genomic sequence data generation

scientific article published on 30 September 2020

Intergenerational wealth transmission and the dynamics of inequality in small-scale societies

scientific article published on October 2009

Matriliny reverses gender disparities in inflammation and hypertension among the Mosuo of China

scientific article published on 16 November 2020

Paternal investment and status-related child outcomes: timing of father's death affects offspring success

scientific article published on 20 March 2012

Pathways from education to fertility decline: a multi-site comparative study

scientific article published on April 2016

Status competition, inequality, and fertility: implications for the demographic transition

scientific article published on April 2016

Testing three evolutionary models of the demographic transition: Patterns of fertility and age at marriage in urban South India

scientific article

The evolution of female-biased kinship in humans and other mammals

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

The rebirth of kinship: evolutionary and quantitative approaches in the revitalization of a dying field

scientific article published in July 2011

Understanding variation in human fertility: what can we learn from evolutionary demography?

scientific article

When does matriliny fail? The frequencies and causes of transitions to and from matriliny estimated from a de novo coding of a cross-cultural sample

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

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