The Takeaway on Gen-Z, rest of the interview edition

The parts that made it into the show, and the parts that didn't.

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.

Overturning Roe and the modern family

Conservatives get one thing right: Abortion rights are a fundamental, clash-of-civilization-level battle. What is at stake, in the overturning of Roe v. Wade, is a woman’s autonomy over her own body, yes, but with it the foundation of modern family life.

Mexico City’s program to distribute ivermectin to 200,000 COVID-19 patients, and the bad science that propped it up

They gave ivermectin to thousands of people outside of a controlled experiment. Was that unethical and bad medicine given the state of knowledge in late 2020? Yes.

Talking about generations with Jean Twenge

A good conversation. With transcript and audio.

Genetics is the truther conspiracy of racial inequality

Genetic explanation for race differences is like a truther conspiracy theory for people like Sam Harris and Charles Murray.

Alexa devaluation, cutting room floor edition

Not only named after a robot, but a subservient female one.

Pew response and attempted clarification

46% of people both "correctly" identified their generation title, and said the term describes them "well."

Now in the Washington Post: The generation labels mean nothing. It’s time to retire them

The Washington Post has published my Opinion piece on generation labels, "The generation labels mean nothing. It's time we retired them." They even commissioned art, which moves! by Tara Jacoby, for The Washington Post This follows the series of posts on this blog, going back a few years, you can read under the generations tag.…

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…