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A Secular Trend toward Earlier Male Sexual Maturity: Evidence from Shifting Ages of Male Young Adult Mortality

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PLOS ONE
Volume 6, Issue 8, Pages -

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PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014826

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  1. University of California, Berkeley, Center for Economics and Demography of Aging NIH [P30 AG01283]

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This paper shows new evidence of a steady long-term decline in age of male sexual maturity since at least the mid-eighteenth century. A method for measuring the timing of male maturity is developed based on the age at which male young adult mortality accelerates. The method is applied to mortality data from Sweden, Denmark, Norway, the United Kingdom, and Italy. The secular trend toward earlier male sexual maturity parallels the trend toward earlier menarche for females, suggesting that common environmental cues influence the speed of both males' and females' sexual maturation.

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