'Her class and his class: Does social class matter for fertility?' by @marcoalbertini, Teodora Maksimovic, Letizia Mencarini and Giorgio Piccitto.
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Comparing how the social class of female partners versus male partners affects the decision to have children, findings reveal that social class is a significant factor, but impacts decisions differently depending on the partner's gender.
I'm at #PAA2024. If you want to meet up, let me know.
Also, I'll be giving a talk on Saturday in the last session (Migration Around the World) on how population-level educational attainment affects individual-level wages, with a special focus on nativity (domestic- vs- foreign born).
Note: This is a good paper, but I only got this slot because everyone else has to be at the airport then. So I'm a little afraid for the attendance.
The good news is across the world fertility rates are falling.... and falls in fertility normally reflect better health care & better rights for women!
But the big Q. is how does a world with an (eventually) falling population pivot its economics that (for decades if not centuries) has taken a growing global population (of workers & consumers) as an underpinning logic or organisation.
Unlike climate change, demographic change is clear & unambiguously measured.... we need to plan!
Indigenous outnumbered White settlers until ~1850 in Australia, according to Boyd Hunter who points to the impact of disease & frontier violence in his new review of Butlin’s back-cast population model.
ACS Data Users Group SC will provide feedback to PRB & the Census Bureau on ACS-related activities, data products, dissemination channels, and/or methods.
Decennial Census Data Users Group SC will help guide the development of a new online forum where data users can discuss matters related to decennial census data products.
Are you a serious social scientist considering using "generation" labels in your actual research? Here is all you need to know: #demography#generations
If you see anyone parroting the talking points of a certain tech billionaire, maybe get them to watch this video
(which includes thoughtful commentary from the brilliant Jennifer Sciubba): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_mOHelAH44
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It might also be useful for anyone who's teaching on population topics.
Now you know: In 2021 Sweden's mortality rate was at least 3-times the USA's in infancy and from age 23 to 53. From 33 to 43 Americans died at more than 4-times the rate of Swedes. #demography#population#publichealth