The Love Wins Theory of Peace

Two countries with legal same-sex marriage have never gone to war. So?

Inequality heatmaps: marriage and working from home

Heatmaps showing different kinds of inequality, with code.

The pandemic and the family, demography edition (video)

In September 2020 versus September 2019, births were 6.1% lower in Florida and 9.6% lower in California. If this has nothing to do with the pandemic that's even more shocking.

Early pandemic demographic indicators

The pandemic and its attendant economic crisis is having massive effects on many aspects of family life. These early indicators are just possible targets of future analysis.

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.…

How big will the drop in weddings be? Big

With data snapshot addendum at the end. In the short run, people are canceling their weddings that were already booked, or not planning the ones they were going to have this summer or fall. In the long run, we don't know. To look at the short run effect, I used Google Trends to extract the…

Very important social scientist says — wait, Brad Wilcox did what now?

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11 trends for your New Decade’s holiday party

When you display data bits at a holiday party, they merge with those from the other people there, to become the common knowledge we need to get things done.

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).