Risk-taking reproductive competition explains national murder rates better than socioeconomic inequality

Cross-Cultural Research

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-29

  Minkov, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Murder rates; Reproductive competition; Risk taking; Socioeconomic inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149490699     PISSN: 10693971     EISSN: 15523578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1069397108326290     Document Type: Article

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