Evolutionary Influences on Assistance to Kin: Evidence from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics

This project involves analyses of the 1985 through 2019 waves of the PSID. <br>The author used the results of these analyses to argue that evolutionary processes focused on genetic relatedness can provide a partial explanation for both the persistence and expansion of kinship ties. To illustrate this perspective, the author examined the consistency between patterns of financial assistance to kin and Hamilton’s rule, derived from the evolutionary theory of inclusive fitness. This data archive contains one Stata data file (.dta). This Stata data file was used for all analyses. The archive contains Stata instruction files (.do) that were used to create all figures and tables and the output files (.log) that resulted from each instruction file.