Leah H Harvey, Westyn Branch-Elliman, Jacqueline Boudreau, Samantha K Sliwinski, Allen L Gifford, Minh Q Ho, Elizabeth Dinges, Justeen Hyde
Harm reduction stories: leveraging graphic medicine to engage veterans in substance use services within the VA
Harm reduction journal
uk national census sample women upper lower socioeconomic ses classes achieve parity completed family size despite marked differences birth rates offspring survival rates test hypothesis women adopt reproductive strategies manipulate age first reproduction achieve use montecarlo modeling approach parameterized current uk lifehistory data simulate reproductive lifehistories 64000 individuals different ses classes parameter values successive time step drawn statistical distribution defined census data show achieve parity women higher socioeconomic classes women lower socioeconomic classes must begin reproducing 565 years earlier average women higher ses classes order offset higher classspecific mortality infertility rates experience model predicts closely observed differences age first reproduction census data opting delay reproduction order purse educationbased professional career may high risk strategy many lower ses women unwilling unable pursue result reproducing early possible may best strategy available