If you're a teacher, or a journalist, or a concerned citizen, or someone who knows one of those people, and you want to know, or explain, what demographers mean when they refer to "fertility," this tiny guide is for you.| Family Inequality
It's birth rates, women's labor force participation, education levels, and average incomes.| Family Inequality
Many people do not realize the nature of what is at stake in the war on science -- starting with the failure to recognize that it is a war on science.| Family Inequality
Wandering around, took some pictures.| Family Inequality
Conservatives think it would be very bad (~70%), liberals less so (~30%), if fewer people decided to have children in the future.| Family Inequality
Conservatives, religious people, old people, men, and married people are most likely to think falling birth rates are bad.| Family Inequality
3 posts published by Philip N. Cohen during June 2025| Family Inequality
Some poor people have more reproductive agency than others.| Family Inequality
On the historical origins of pronatalism in race science, this time from the sociologist Edward Ross in 1901.| Family Inequality
Questioning both the assumption of infinite growth and the concept of standard of living measured as dollar output per capita.| Family Inequality
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
Some visualizations on one of the oldest questions in social science.| Family Inequality
Viewed together, these outline a political strategy toward science that is both systematic and dangerous: a full-scale war on the scientific community, the network of individual researchers across …| Family Inequality
Chatbot factcheck confirms I’m not the real liar and it takes one to know one.| Family Inequality
When Brad Wilcox uses 287 words to say, “We want straight, married people to have more children.”| Family Inequality
Who gives Lyman Stone titles like “director”? Not the government or the universities it supports.| Family Inequality
A timeline for those catching up with or reviewing the Affair.| Family Inequality
I haven’t read the book, but the op-ed was terrible.| Family Inequality