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.

The pandemic road, with data

Two year follow-up to a post on path dependence.

Ukraine’s refugee crisis is a demographic crisis, too

If one-half of the 2.2 million refugees are children, that's 1.1 million, which is 13% of the Ukraine's children. This is two weeks in, with no end in sight.

Comment on pandemic family plans

In light of disparate impacts of COVID-19 itself and the social and economic fallout of the pandemic, research should concentrate on widening inequalities in fertility and family well-being, and their relationship to health disparities.

Chasing Life podcast on making babies, or not

CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta has a podcast called Chasing Life about coming out of the pandemic. Associate producer Grace Walker interviewed me for an episode titled, "Let’s Talk About Making Babies (Or Deciding Not To)." In it reporter Chloe Melas starts with the story of a Black couple (two women, one of them trans) seeking…

Hard times and falling fertility in the United States

The text and figures of this short paper are below, and it's also available as a PDF on SocArXiv, in more citable form. The Stata code and other materials are up as well, here. It's pretty drafty -- very happy to hear any feedback. Preamble: When Sabrina Tavernise, Claire Cain Miller, Quoctrung Bui and Robert…

New paper: Baby Bust analysis of 124 counties in 2 states through February 2021

Births fell more in January/February in those counties with more COVID-19 cases, and those with more mobility limitation, through the end of last May.

The one-child policy was bad and so is “One Child Nation”

Nothing against watching it, but it's not good.

Pandemic Baby Bust situation update

Some of the new numbers are small, in a very big way

COVID-19 Baby Bust update and data

Killing time while we wait for events to occur, I set up a dataset to build on.