Nearsighted parents like to leave night lights on. Spurious correlations ensue.
Tag: children
International adoption to the US has fallen 75%
Updating the adoption data series.
US policy fails at reducing child poverty because it aims to fix the poor
If we want to help kids, it's time to focus on money, not marriage.
Updated age education birth figures
Preparing for today's appearance on the Kojo Nnamdi Show, I updated some old figures.
Why are women with advanced degrees having more children?
If we don't improve the situation with healthcare, childcare, and family leave, then we risk increasingly making children a luxury that fewer families believe they can afford.
Bogus versus extremely low-quality, Sullins edition
Do we have a way of identifying these so-bad-they're-basically-bogus journals that is meaningful to the various audiences they are reaching?
Color and the making of gender in early childhood
Maybe gender differences in color preference are just an anchor for children's gender identity performance.
Children in same-sex parent families, dead horse edition
Looking at the evidence so far I think it's fair to call these journals bogus. However, I wouldn't argue too much if you wanted instead to say they are merely of the very lowest quality.
Off gender-script art
Fortunately, the hotel we're stranded at is only a few blocks from the Art Institute of Chicago. Tooling around the museum I was still thinking about sex dimorphism, especially this piece in Time where I referenced ancient art and this one where I compared depictions of Hercules. I have no expertise in art history, so…
Santa’s magic, children’s wisdom, and inequality
What if we just gave children presents because we love them?