Geographic Variation in Personality is Associated With Fertility Across the United States.

ABSTRACT: Levels of fertility and the shape of the age-specific fertility schedule vary substantially across U.S. regions with some states having peak fertility relatively early and others relatively late. Structural institutions or economic factors partly explain these heterogeneous patterns, but regional differences in personality might also contribute to regional differences in fertility. Here, we evaluated whether variation in extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience measured at the U.S. state-level was associated with the level, timing, and context of fertility across states above and beyond sociodemographics, voting behavior, and religiosity. Generally, states with higher levels of agreeableness and conscientiousness had more traditional fertility

SUBMITTER: Junkins EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11364352 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature