Government family spending does not predict fertility rates, or does it
Fertility rates are terrible in every good country except for Israel. Why is that? Well, maybe we just don't spend enough money on this. Maybe it is too expensive to…
Who has how much dysgenics? The worldwide picture
In 2024, Seb Jensen published a report over at Hanania's CSPI (Are We Getting Dumber?) summarizing his findings concerning the speed of global dysgenics. Due to various reasons, the formal…
What doesn’t explain the post-COVID fertility decline?
I've been writing about fertility for a while. Of recent interest is the COVID or post-COVID fertility decline. Birth Gauge compiles the most up to date TFR (total fertility rate)…
Female education and fertility rates
This figure has been floating around on X the last few days: As in my own example, the copycat gained more attention than the earlier post (July 3rd 1.2M views,…
Can we boost fertility with paid leave?
In every country some women get pregnant and give birth from time to time, and there is some kind of social support system in place for taking care of the…
Large scale remigration is possible
In Western countries there is a broad sentiment that one cannot really just expel a bunch of foreigners. Sometimes, this is just a legal claim that this would not currently…
Are babies in Denmark becoming relatively more Danish?
Over on Twitter we have this claim by Marko Jukic about the speed of the Danish population replacement is getting a lot of attention: It sounds unlikely given that migration…
People did not used to marry early in the good old times
If you look at a plot of age of first marriage and age of first birth (usually following marriage), you might get the idea that the 1960s cultural revolution, feminism…