The Reproductive Compensation (RC) hypothesis and the Differential Allocation (DA) hypothesis predict that parents who mate under constraint will either increase or decrease, respectively, their reproductive effort and investment in offspring. One possible type of mate choice constraint in humans is arranged marriage in which parents or others choose mates. To test the RC and DA hypotheses in humans, we examine whether there are differences in parental investment between women in arranged marriages and those in self-choice marriages using data from the Indonesian Family Life Survey (n = 8393). Marriage type does not significantly correlate with parental investment except for fertility outcomes where women in self-choice marriages had more live births, living children, and greater marital fertility than woman in arranged marriages. Our findings better support the DA hypothesis than the RC hypothesis. We conclude that, like many other species, free mate choice is associated with increased reproductive success in this sample of humans.

生殖补偿（RC）假说和差异分配（DA）假说预测，在约束下交配的父母将分别增加或减少他们的生殖努力和对后代的投资。人类择偶限制的一种可能类型是父母或其他人选择配偶的包办婚姻。为了在人类中检验 RC 和 DA 假设，我们使用印度尼西亚家庭生活调查 ( n = 8393)的数据来检验包办婚姻中的女性和自主选择婚姻中的女性之间的父母投资是否存在差异 。婚姻类型与父母的投资没有显着相关，除了生育结果外，自主选择婚姻中的妇女比包办婚姻中的妇女有更多的活产、活孩子和更高的婚姻生育力。我们的研究结果比 RC 假设更好地支持 DA 假设。我们的结论是，与许多其他物种一样，自由择偶与该人类样本中繁殖成功率的提高有关。