I pulled together a few charts for a presentation on demographic trends, including Israel / Palestine. It follows my post from 5 years ago, when I concluded that, "Israel’s trajectory is unsustainable in more ways than one." These use data from the UN, Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, World Bank, and Israel Democracy Institute. 1.…
Author: Philip N. Cohen
Sociologist, demographer
New grad seminar syllabus: Gender, Work, and Family
I tried to balance mostly recent books and articles, qualitative and quantitative, review pieces and empirical studies.
Family mass murders account for 41% of deaths
In Enoch City, it's important to bear witness to the fact that the system absolutely failed those innocent children and let them be murdered by the very man they had tried to warn the police about.
Americans are having sex less often
(Why does Google call these "visually similar images" when it's obviously grouping them based on the surrounding text as well?) There are a number of sources showing a decline in sexual frequency among American adolescents and adults. Here are a few trends that I gathered as I write the update for the 4th edition of…
Patriarchy, On Fire, superfecundation, sexual intercourse, moral acceptability, football fatalities
A few recent observations shared on my Mastodon account.
If you click on this you will see that one list of things that is the 2022 year end review
Papers, books, posts, news, social media. Thanks for reading!
Eternalism and choosing the futures
Free will exists even in an eternal universe in which all the possible time-space realities “already” “exist.” The question is which futures will we join.
2022 Books in Review
The list of books we read is more personally revealing than a scattering of curated comments and status updates.
US name androgyny at record high
Androgyny is still climbing rapidly and I thought you needed to know that right away.
A short paper on the decline of all things marriage in the U.S.
A higher status marriage system is a smaller, slower, and more stable marriage system.
Family Inequality 