Black and White women’s lifetime marriage projections

Projections show 86.2% for White women, and 61.7% for Black women, eventually marrying for a cohort born and living through conditions prevailing in 2019.

Science says: Get married at age Whatever You Want (and these are the odds of divorce)

Divorce odds are lowest for women who marry later, and for people who've been married a long time.

The median mother is 30, TV interview edition

When you look at what has happened since the recession in 2008, the decline in birth was pretty dramatic, but it was all among women under age 35.

Race/ethnic intermarriage trends, 2008-2018

Rising, with gender differences. Since 2008 the American Community Survey has been asking respondents whether they got married in the previous 12 months. Using the race/ethnicity of spouses (when they are living together), you can estimate the proportion of new marriages that cross racial/ethnic lines. Defining such "intermarriage" is not as simple as it sounds.…

Framing social class with sample selection

Venn diagrams to help people think about for screening subjects for social class status.

The COVID-19 epidemic in rural U.S. counties

The rural epidemic is driven by outbreaks in counties with prisons, meat and poultry, and nursing homes. They're also disproportionately Hispanic, American Indian, and Black.

The arriving divorce decline

A 3 percent drop in the refined divorce rate for 2018.

Family diversity, new normal

Family diversity is not just a buzzword (although it is that), and it's not just the recognition of diversity that always existed (although it is that).

The changing household age range, U.S. 1900-2017

One way to understand daily interaction, and intergenerational resource exchange, is just to look at the structure of households. This doesn't tell you everything that goes on in households, but it gives some strong clues. And we can measure it going back more than a century, thanks to IPUMS.org's collection of Census microdata. In 1900,…

White children are 2.7-times more likely than Black children to live with a parent who has a PhD

Producing half a sentence for NYTimes essay.