Americans with less education are aging faster biologically than their peers with more schooling, and the gap has grown over the last 30 years. The post Study: Education Gap Linked to Differences in Biological Aging appeared first on USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology.| USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology
Most people who are worried about falling birth rates in the U.S. probably don't realize that birth rates are only falling among non-married women.| Family Inequality
Half the sky, 23.5% of the power.| Family Inequality
Some visualizations on one of the oldest questions in social science.| Family Inequality
This is the first part of the third part of our series (I, II) discussing the patterns of life of the pre-modern peasants who made up the great majority of all humans who lived in our agrarian past and indeed a majority of all humans who have ever lived. Last week, we looked at death, … Continue reading Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IIIa: Family Formation→| A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
This is the first part of the third part of our series (I, II) discussing the patterns of life of the pre-modern peasants who made up the great majority of all humans who lived in our agrarian past…| A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
The next marriage comeback is always already here in the Wilcox bologna factory.| Family Inequality
Co-authored by Jens von Bergmann and cross-posted at MountainMath. The main housing problem in Canada is that there is not enough of it. We can see this by looking at prices and rents, but also by …| Home: Free Sociology!
This is the first post in a series discussing the basic contours of life – birth, marriage, labor, subsistence, death – of pre-modern peasants and their families. Prior to the industrial revolution, peasant farmers of varying types made up the overwhelming majority of people in settled societies (the sort with cities and writing). And when … Continue reading Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part I: Households→| A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
Alva Myrdal assumed fertility rates would continue to fall.| Family Inequality
This is the first post in a series discussing the basic contours of life – birth, marriage, labor, subsistence, death – of pre-modern peasants and their families. Prior to the industria…| A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
The statistical observation that as the mean falls, a diverse normal distribution cushions it from slamming into zero, illustrated with yachts.| Family Inequality
Co-authored by Jens von Bergmann and cross-posted at MountainMath. Housing demand from external migration receives outsized attention in the public discussion. We take a recent Statistics Canada re…| Home: Free Sociology!
Procreating with a relative is taboo in most human societies for many reasons, but they all stem from avoiding one thing in particular — inbreeding increases the risk of genetic disorders that can …| ConservationBytes.com
Who gives Lyman Stone titles like “director”? Not the government or the universities it supports.| Family Inequality
The Black Summer bushfires of 2019–2020 that razed more than half of the landscape on Kangaroo Island in South Australia left an indelible mark on the island’s unique native biodiversity, which is still struggling to recover. However, one big bonus for the environment’s recovery is the likely eradication of feral pigs (Sus scrofa). Invasive feral pigs cause […]| ConservationBytes.com
Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University; Christian Reepmeyer, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut – German Archaeological Institute, and Theodora Moutsiou, University of Cyprus Imagine growing up beside the eastern Mediterranean Sea 14,000 years ago. You’re an accomplished sailor of the small watercraft you and your fellow villagers make, and you live off both the sea and the […]| ConservationBytes.com
Co-authored by Jens von Bergmann and cross-posted at MountainMath. In our new paper “The new rules: housing shortage as an explanation for family and household change across large metro areas in Ca…| Home: Free Sociology!
Co-authored with Jens von Bergmann and cross-posted on MountainMath. Evidence suggests a clear correlation between rents and rates of homelessness in the USA. The simplest interpretation is that ho…| Home: Free Sociology!
On the 17th of June, the GLA’s City Intelligence Unit released the fifth edition of its State of London report[1], a publication that provides the most up-to-date statistics on London’s performance across a range of economic and social outcomes. The report brings together an array of datasets that are organised thematically. The aim is to present some of the most important indicators informing the work of the Mayor, the London Assembly, and stakeholders in London – thereby presenting an...| London Datastore
Co-authored with Jens von Bergmann and cross-posted at MountainMath Who would benefit from dramatically expanding the supply of housing in the market? How would such an expansion address housing ne…| Home: Free Sociology!
Co-authored with Jens von Bergmann and cross-posted at MountainMath How does owning or renting relate to household independence across the life course? How have these relationships changed over recent history? We use Census data from 1981-2021 to check in on historical relationships between age, tenure, and household composition. From these we develop a couple of … Continue reading Tenure and Household Independence across the Life Course, 1981-2021| Home: Free Sociology!
Co-authored with Jens von Bergmann and cross-posted at MountainMath New data supports a common theme: Housing costs seem to be increasingly important as a determinant of long-distance migration, adding to their traditional importance within short-distance moves. But there are still some interesting caveats. We have a look at the data, compare it to what we … Continue reading Migration and Housing Costs| Home: Free Sociology!
© www.viewsoftheworld.net Approximately half the population of Germany lives in the 30 major urban German agglomerations, such as Berlin, Hamburg, Munich (München), and Cologne (Köln) but also in smaller cities including Münster, Freiburg, Leipzig, and Dresden. These urban regions (Stadtregionen) are also … Continue reading → The post The growth and decline of urban agglomerations in Germany was written by Benjamin Hennig and published on Views of the World. If you enjoyed this, you m...| Views of the World