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April 25, 2025

What’s holding women back from starting a family?

…rates of depression, and higher rates of personal meaning and satisfaction (despite also reporting higher stress levels), according to family scholars Wendy Wang and Yifeng Wan, who presented their recent…

April 3, 2025

Trump’s Tariffs Are a Historic Tax Hike

…and egregious assault on our constitutional system of government. In the Constitution, it is Congress’s role to raise revenue, not the president’s. I am an economist, not a constitutional scholar….

March 21, 2025

Increasing Financial Aid Isn’t the Solution to High College Costs

…college student received an annual financial aid package worth $1,700 (in today’s dollars) from sources outside their institution, including the federal government, states, and private scholarships. By 2019-20, however, the…

March 17, 2025

How State Policymakers Can Save the Nuclear Family

…Naomi Cahn and June Carbone argue that blue states have the liberal values and policies they believe make for strong and stable families.  Scholars like them point to universal pre-K,…

March 17, 2025

Progressives Are Starting to Come Around on the Importance of Marriage and Fatherhood

scholar, he did not connect the dots between the crisis in American masculinity and the distance too many boys and men have from married family life. In fact, he argued that we…

March 13, 2025

Trends in Net College Tuition and Financial Aid, 1990–2020

…the amount of tuition and required fees that students pay out of their own wallets, after all grants and scholarships are applied. By contrast, institutions’ net tuition is the amount of tuition…

February 18, 2025

Family-Friendly Policies for the 119th Congress

…plenty of policies to make America more family friendly. In this compilation, various AEI scholars offer a small sampling of such policies. AEI, of course, does not take institutional positions,…

January 14, 2025

The Pornography Industry Should Not Be Allowed This Much Access to Our Children

…our children affected by this tidal wave of pornography? As scholars from the Institute for Family Studies, the Wheatley Institute at Brigham Young University, and the University of Virginia, we…

January 10, 2025

Marriage: America’s Keystone Institution

…than ever for the well-being of children and adults, at least on some outcomes. Scholars, journalists, professionals, and policymakers should not only take note of marriage’s rising value, but they…

December 13, 2024

Economics & Data-Driven Inquiry

At the behest of New College Florida and the Global Freedom Initiative, AEI scholar Kevin Corinth joined a distinguished group of scholars and practitioners for the Symposium on Ideological Capture…