It’s an exciting time to be a futurist. After decades of relative stagnation, things finally seem to be happening. The rockets are launching again and are now landing on their tails, fusion energy is being taken seriously again, and many of us are paying a few dollars a month to use “AI” programs that would have been considered science fiction a decade ago.| Palladium Magazine
Birth rates in the United States are near record lows, but not for everyone. Indeed, under the surface of the fertility decline since 2007 is a little noticed fact: fertility has declined much more among nonreligious Americans than among the devout. Data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) from 1982 to 2019, along with data from four waves of the Demographic Intelligence Family Survey (DIFS) from 2020 to 2022, point to a widening gap in fertility rates between more religious and ...| Institute for Family Studies
Addressing the actual cause of collapsing fertility: status| becomingnoble.substack.com
Within Europe, there are sometimes sizable differences in levels of religious commitment. A new interactive lets you explore these differences.| Pew Research Center
Opportunity cost and fertility| www.maximum-progress.com
John and Tori have two houses, three cars, six kids, and 45 years of parenting experience. One dog’s dead, but the second is alive. When the kids were younger, they had three nannies and one driver. Most of the kids were homeschooled, so Tori stayed home to teach them. The kids played six sports: tennis, golf, sailing, rowing, skiing, and baseball. They grew up and left for 24 years of college, which meant around two million dollars worth of tuition. John spent another half a million on pri...| Palladium Magazine
College enrollment statistics for U.S. postsecondary institutions broken down by state, race, ethnicity, gender, age and degree.| Education Data Initiative