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November 17, 2023
…brain responsible for feeling and for quick reaction, as distinct from dispassionate thinking.” Many of the nation’s biggest businesses—from Alphabet (YouTube) to TikTok to Microsoft (Xbox) to Philip Morris (vapes)—are…
October 27, 2023
…of men who end up becoming fathers and forging day-in-day-out relationships with their children. Brad Wilcox, a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia and director of the National…
October 2, 2023
…it conveys growing evidence that family structure matters more than ever for today’s children. In analyzing the 1979 and 1997 cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, the report…
September 21, 2023
…odds that more mothers and fathers will give their kids the benefit of being raised by married parents. W. Bradford Wilcox, professor of sociology and director of the National Marriage Project…
September 20, 2023
…economic success. We used panel data from the 1979 and 1997 cohorts of the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY). The NLSY79 consists of a nationally representative sample of 12,686 men…
September 17, 2023
Utah was just acknowledged by WalletHub as the happiest state in the nation, and it’s no secret that Utah leads many state performance rankings in America. From the economy — including…
September 12, 2023
…women and men truly the happiest, or are women and men today who are married with children happier? The 2022 edition of the General Social Survey (GSS)—the nation’s preeminent social…
August 17, 2023
…“Utah economic miracle” — marked by exceptional economic growth, a favorable business climate and high rates of economic mobility — has garnered attention across the nation and helps explain why…
August 16, 2023
…in Utah are more likely to follow the sequence than their peers across the nation, we have witnessed an erosion of commitment to the latter two steps even in the…
August 14, 2023
…economy is widely seen as the best in the nation. The “Utah economic miracle”—marked by exceptional economic growth, a favorable business climate, and high rates of economic mobility—has garnered attention…