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Fertility Trends and the Myth of Millenials
— By Philip N. Cohen The other day I showed trends in employment and marriage rates, and made the argument that the generational term “Millennial” and others are not useful: they are imposed before...
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Start a Family Started to Mean ‘Have Children’ More Recently Than You Think
— By Philip N. Cohen It looks like the phrase “start a family” started to mean “have children” (after marriage) sometime in the 1930s, and didn’t catch on till the 1940s or 1950s, which happens to be...
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New Data Show Change in the Class Identity Structure
— By Philip N. Cohen Updating a 2013 post with the 2016 General Social Survey. Not a lot of interpretation, just some facts. The GSS has, since 1972, asked Americans: If you were asked to use one of...
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Marriage Update: Less Divorce, Less Sex
— I previously reported that divorce rates in the American Community Survey have fallen a fair amount since 2008, and especially from 2012 to 2014; and the experts at Bowling Green’s National Center...
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The Coming Divorce Decline, Socius Edition
— “The Coming Divorce Decline, ” which I first posted a year ago, has now been published by the journal Socius. Three thousand people have downloaded it from SocArXiv, I presented it at the Population...
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Against the Generations, With Video
— I had the opportunity to make a presentation at the National Academies to the “Committee on the Consideration of Generational Issues in Workforce Management and Employment Practices.” If you’ve...
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Two Talks on Public Sociology (With Audio)
— I gave two talks at the American Sociological Meetings in New York City this week. I recorded them and removed some of the ums for you here. They’re each less than 11 minutes. The first was in a...
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Divorce Fell in One Florida County (And 31 Others), and You Will Totally...
— You can really do a lot with the common public misperception that divorce is always going up. Brad Wilcox has been taking advantage of that since at least 2009,, when he selectively trumpeted a...
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Take the Marital Name Change Survey
— As I work on the 3rd edition of The Family (don’t hold your breath, it will be a while), I’m adding more discussion on the issue of marriage and name changes. Unfortunately, there isn’t a lot of...
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Let’s Raise the Legal Age of Marriage in Maryland
— Today I sent the following letter to the Maryland House Judiciary Committee, which is scheduled to hold a hearing on these bills tomorrow. Under current law in Maryland, marriage is permitted as...
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Marriage Rates Among People With Disabilities (Save the Data Edition)
— Cross posted on the Families as They Really Are blog. Disability is a very broad concept, representing a wide array of conditions that are not easily captured in a simple demographic survey. However,...
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Life Expectancy Update, Disparity Edition
— The good news is that U.S. life expectancy is at a record high, 78.8 as of 2012. What about life disparity — the inequality in life expectancy? With the economic crisis and rise in income inequality,...
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Can Animated Boys and Girls Be (Almost) the Same Size?
— A lot of the criticism I got for this post on Disney dimorphism was about how good animation inevitably exaggerates sex differences. (There are a lot of these comments on the Sociological Images...
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AEI Panel on ‘Demographic Decline
— I was on a panel at the American Enterprise Institute, titled, “Demographic decline: National crisis or moral panic?” The event featured Lyman Stone, who argued that “demographic decline” in the U.S....
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Why We Need Open Science in Demography, and How We Can Make It Happen
— “Why we need open science in demography, and how we can make it happen” is the title of a talk I gave at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research yesterday, as part of an open science...
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New Working Paper: The Rising Marriage Mortality Gap Among Whites
— I wrote a short working paper on U.S. mortality trends for the last decade. You can go straight to the paper on SocArXiv, or the code and output, if you want the full version. The issue is that...
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When the Map Says Race but All You Can Talk About Is Fatherhood
— By Philip N. Cohen Raj Chetty and colleagues have a new paper showing that “childhood environments play an important role in shaping gender gaps in adulthood.” Essentially, boys from poor or single...
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Thought Leader for a Day: Families in Uncertain Times
— By Philip N. Cohen I have contributed to the Canvas8 2016 Expert Outlook report. I am not sure what this is, but it has to do with experts, and the future, and being a thought leader. Thirty-nine...
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Trump Facts (Demography and Demagoguery)
— By Philip N. Cohen The other day I listed some must-know basic demographic facts. If Chuck Todd on Meet the Press had practiced them he could have caught this from Donald Trump (if he wanted to)....
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Why I Snarked on a 538 Blog Post (And I’m Sorry)
— By Philip N. Cohen The first thing that bugged me about this blog post by Jay Ulfelder at Five Thirty Eight was not the most important thing. The first thing I reacted to was that Ulfelder opened by...
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