When women are scarce, men spend more money

In the study The financial implications of having too many men is revealed as the economic behavior of people can be influenced by a variable not studied so far: the lack of women. The biological desire for mating changes the financial behavior of men.

What can be seen in other animals is that when females are scarce, the males become more competitive. Compete more for access to a partner.

How do humans compete to get a date? What we found in different cultures is that men often do so through money, status and objects.

In one experiment, participants read articles from a geography in describing a population with more men or more women. Then he asked how much money would borrow or save a month if they lived in that area. When men believed that women were scarce, 42% saved less and borrowed 84% more.

In the second experiment saw a sequence of photos of men and women and then asked to choose between receiving $ 20 tomorrow or $ 30 within a month. When there were fewer women in the photo sequence, the men preferred the money immediately.

Although the proportion of men and women does not alter the economic behavior of women, the expectations of these changes and become more demanding. After reading that there are more men, women expect men to spend more money on a dinner, a Valentine's gift or an engagement ring.

Given the shortage of women, these men feel they must change their way of courting.

Economics tells us that human beings make decisions carefully considering the various options, we are not animals. It turns out that we have much in common with other animals. Some of our behaviors are much more reactive and unconscious. We see that there are more men than women in our environment and automatically change our desires, our behavior and our whole psychology.

In addition to the study, researchers reviewed 120 papers on U.S. cities that were consistent are their hypotheses. In cities with more singles, the proportion of credit cards was older and had higher debt levels. In two cities separated by 100 miles, the difference was palpable. One had a rate of 1.18 men per woman compared to 0.78 for the other city. The average debt of a consumer's first was $ 3,479 higher.

One of the problematic implications of the sex ratio for the world in general is that it is something more than money. It is also violence and survival.

As you know the good specialists in economics human behavior is not logical. Is psychological.