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…
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,…
Authoritarianism and fertility: maybe, probably
Last year, this meme was floating around: The data are real enough, and the years are right. It seems that Franco was able to sustain fertility in Spain during his…
Number of siblings vs. total fertility rate
This is commentary on: Ellis, L., Hoskin, A. W., Dutton, E., & Nyborg, H. The Future of Secularism: a Biologically Informed Theory Supplemented with Cross-Cultural Evidence. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 1-19.…