Youth / fertility preference in partners
Stated or revealed preference for younger or higher-fertility-cue partners.
Cross-cultural inventories (Buss 1989) find a male-typical tilt toward youth cues. Speed-dating work shows the tilt is real in revealed choice but is moderated by the chooser's own market position and by the attribute set on the table.
Also called age preference, fertility cues.
Connected relationships
Observational · Moderate
Disposable income→Youth / fertility preference in partners
A rise in Disposable income does not identify a change in Youth / fertility preference in partners.
Richer men can act on a preference that poorer men also often hold. Money changes the feasible set, not necessarily the utility function.
Observational · Low
Formal organizational power→Youth / fertility preference in partners
A rise in Formal organizational power does not identify a change in Youth / fertility preference in partners.
Command over people is not a separately identified cause of youth preference. It usually arrives with money.