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August 17, 2023
The ‘Utah Family Miracle’ and Why It Matters
…childbearing is softening at this moment. But at the same time, the state continues to lead the nation in affording children the gift of married parents and maintains its position…
August 16, 2023
How to Strengthen the ‘Success Sequence’ in Utah
…stability is losing ground. As for work, there has been a decline in the share of young men engaged in full-time work in Utah, much like the rest of the…
August 2, 2023
The Best Predictor of Happiness in America? Marriage
…is stable over time. It is about the same whether the unmarried state is due to divorce, separation, death of spouse or never having married,” Peltzman says. What’s more, he…
August 1, 2023
How the Middle Class Is Faring: My Long-Read Q&A with Jeremy Horpedahl
…average American isn’t following all this data too closely, but I think most people have seen a statistic that over some 40- or 50-year time period, if you adjust for…
July 21, 2023
Can Spain Defuse Its Depopulation Bomb?
…decades, with the marriage rate falling more than 50% in the same period. When data from last year showed that the Spanish birth rate had plummeted to an all-time low, Vox took to Twitter to describe…
July 17, 2023
The Problem with Lived Experience
…be ignored and are not irrelevant in policymaking. Policies are made all the time based on rare events—New York City has window guard policies to prevent children from falling out…
July 10, 2023
Reforming the EITC to Reduce Single Parenthood and Ease Work-Family Balance
…combined work if they wish to have one parent spend more time caring for the children. Consider a married couple with two children where, as above, one parent makes $20,000…
June 24, 2023
Family Affordability in America: A Story of Decline or Achievement?
…Some scholars conclude that income has generally kept pace with costs, suggesting that having a family has not become less affordable over time. Meanwhile, others conclude that costs have outpaced…
June 22, 2023
Thanks to the Baby Bust, America Is Getting Older
…Times. “Fewer kids are being born.” This is true. Almost every year since 2007, fewer and fewer children have been born in the United States, down from 4.3 million in…
June 20, 2023
Down Through the Ages
…happiness between higher-income and lower-income white Americans in the 1970s, but by the 2010s, “five times as many whites in the lowest fifth for income were unhappy compared to those…