So excited to see this in print!

New from Roshan Pandian & Keera Allendorf: “Among 18 countries w/ declining fertility, sons-only families increased significantly in 17 countries and daughters-only families in 13.” They suggest that such demographic shifts may weaken some patrilineal systems. ow.ly/JYvK50Ih8ar

A reminder of the scale of the debt crisis ripping through the global South. Research from Jayati Ghosh and C.P. Chandrasekhar shows that poor countries currently spend 1.7 times the amount they spend on education, health and social security JUST on debt servicing networkideas.org/featured-artic…

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At the blog I wrote about a really, really good new article in AJS by Roshan Pandian. He explains the decline of between-country global inequality from 2000 onward. Link to blog and to the article in the next tweet:

Application deadline in less than a week (Oct 1st).

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so why does the undp use ppp to arrive at global income shares again? triplecrisis.com/country-income…

American hegemonic decline? Not really. duckofminerva.com/2016/02/why-is…

Our new research on arranged marriage in India in Population Council's Population & Development Review: bit.ly/2b2dJSt