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…
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…
Women’s neuroticism, relationships, and fertility
There's a few findings that no one seems to have integrated, so this is my attempt. First off, women are higher in neuroticism than men. Neuroticism can generally be described…
Give women what they want: more babies
Central to the decline of the West and now almost all high income countries is that they have too low fertility. Just a reminder from the prior post: Why the…
The anti-boomer story
The anti-boomer story goes like this: There was upon a time a happy, functional western civilization. Then came one generation who voted for a lot of welfare increases. The same…
Dysgenics: within and between
Lyman Stone has a new post over at Institute for Family Studies: Are We Headed Towards ‘Idiocracy’? A Look at ‘Dysgenic Fertility’. His main point is that the strength of…
Does racial diversity cause lower fertility?
I know, it sounds like a far right conspiracy theory, however: Gurun, U. G., & Solomon, D. H. (2024). E Pluribus, Pauciores (Out of Many, Fewer): Diversity and Birth Rates.…
Within vs. between group correlations
Let's think about causality and group-level comparisons. Here I mean any type of group, whether nations, sub-national divisions (states, regions, provinces, communes), religious classifications, races, or any other grouping. Sometimes…
The OECD fallacy
I tweeted this funny (?) rebuke at Richard Hanania earlier: However, Twitter demanded that I explain my words: Alas, the fact is that: But to be more serious. The fact…