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For most, across different generations, gender, and seniority, work performance has improved as well as employees’ well-being, work-life balance, relationships, and even personal confidence. [...]

Results indicate the pattern of fertility polarization already seen in some low‐fertility countries: for the disadvantaged segment of the population, it is increasingly difficult to become [...]

To ensure financial security for all, China should subsidize medical care and education for the poorest people, adopting a life-course approach to the social determinants of health, and narrow [...]

This year’s Prenatal-to-3 State Policy Roadmap tracks which American states have implemented policies considered helpful for those formative years — a period deemed the “fastest, most vulnerable [...]

Companies have serious blind spots about their caregiver population and regularly make assumptions that can undermine their stated values and goals. [Katherine Goldstein – Harvard Business [...]

The COVID-19 pandemic may have been the exogenous shock that Japan needed to make people and organizations realize the downsides of an inflexible work culture. [Hiroshi Ono – East Asia [...]

As pandemic stressors continue, it needs to be addressed in schools. [Ashley Abramson – American Psychological Association, 1 January 2022.] READ MORE

The world has made a lot of progress in recent generations, but millions of children are still not in school. [Max Roser – Our World in Data, 2 November 2021.] READ MORE

Family Science is where “the primary goals are the discovery, verification and application of knowledge about the family.”

Receiving grandparental support has a positive and significant impact on women’s but not on men’s fertility intentions. Furthermore, this impact remains positive after controlling for women’s [...]