Interesting essay from the Boston Review Winter 2025 issue: The Parenting Panic -- which feature a discussion of my book 'Decline and Prosper' bostonreview.net/articles/the-p…

🌍📄 Every Child Counts: Advancing Birth Registration for All 📄🌍 On this African Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Day, we spotlight @UNICEF_WCARO’s evaluation of Key Result for Children (KRC) 7: Birth Registration. 🔍 Key Findings: Despite progress, only 63% of children

Sweden reached near gender parity in employment in the late 1980s, and if anything, the gender gap has increased since then. There used to be near-universal employment among Swedish men, with Swedish women nearly catching up in the 1980s. Swedish labor force survey, age 35-44.

Thailand's Birth Rate Hits 75-Year Low, Raising Concerns Over Future Workforce - Thai Times thaitimes.com/thailand-s-bir…

Tamil Nadu Blames Falling Birth Rate, Migration For Zero School Enrolment ndtv.com/india-news/tam… msn.com/en-in/news/Ind…

42% of Americans who get news from Fox News have ≤ a high school degree. No English language news source studied has higher audience share without any college education. pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…

Pakistan’s 2.55% population growth rate is alarming, says PM Shehbaz Sharif, urging a national policy amid concerns that rapid growth strains healthcare, education, & jobs, fueling unrest. dawn.com/news/1929453

𝗛𝗨𝗠𝗔𝗡 𝗖𝗔𝗣𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗟 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗛𝗨𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗦 is out! "𝘈 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘱, 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘬" ~𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀

Chinese Women Use Most Contraceptive Pills In Asia news18.com/lifestyle/heal…

Indian Rural fertility rate drops to 2.1 children per woman - Delhi has reached 1.2 children per woman share.google/7OXE1ixLKnbg0s…

Taiwanese Women's Shifting Views on Childbirth: Autonomy and Diversity As New Trends prnewswire.com/apac/news-rele…

Scholars interested in visiting us at, CEFH, in Oslo please apply here for the Gro Harlem Brundtland Scholarship fhi.no/en/ch/Centre-f…

Political leadership and fertility in the US papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Fertility change misunderstood 📊When mortality is considered, global fertility peaked at 4.1 children, not the 5.3 suggested by TFR 🔍 In Middle Africa, TFR peaked in 1987, while 2SNRR (accounting for mortality) shows fertility hasn't declined at all rdcu.be/eGyRE

Peak and current global fertility lower when accounting for mortality using the 2SNRR (2 Sex Net Reproduction Rate) relative to the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) link.springer.com/article/10.100…

8 out 10 Married Women In Kenya Need Contraceptives - Kenyans.co.ke kenyans.co.ke/news/116577-wo… kenyans.co.ke/news/116577-wo…

Remarkable! This map shows only the bike paths in the Netherlands that physically separate cyclists from other traffic on the road. They are abundant! I wish the US had this kind of biking infrastructure! landgeist.com/2022/11/08/all…

Our new study in Eur J Ageing finds daughters’ life satisfaction declines due to frail parents’ care needs, not caregiving itself. No effect on sons. doi.org/10.1007/s10433… #Caregiving #WellBeing #Aging

Singapore's dragon year fails for the first time to raise fertility straitstimes.com/singapore/comm…