by Philip N. Cohen
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…
Continue reading ➞ Hard times and falling fertility in the United States
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.
There is no guarantee that a happy, healthy, equal, and harmonious population wants to produce enough children to maintain or grow its total size.
The only argument he makes is to underline the word "not." So do you trust him?
The assessment that Whites are more intelligent than Blacks is more common among male, older, less formally educated, and conservative Whites.
Three years and 10 minute of work later.
Abortion rights don't depend on fetuses not being human at all.
Still, a big reversal among young adults on attitudes toward homemaker-breadwinner family arrangements.
Even though the spike in traffic deaths is concerning, reporting should not be wrong.
Ask a stupid question. When Justin Wolfers wrote about the dominance of economists in the pages of the New York Times, he concluded, "our popularity reflects the discerning tastes of our audience in the marketplace of ideas." I discussed the evidence for that in this post, which focused on the particular organizational features of the NYT. At…
Continue reading ➞ Is the New York Times trapped in an economics echo chamber?
Family Inequality 