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Evidence on the relationship between fathers’ labor market outcomes and number of children. [Anna Baranowska-Rataj & Anna Matysiak – Feminist Economics, 20 January 2022.] READ MORE

It has a much younger workforce whose participation in the labour market is far lower than the level in China. [The Economic Times, 22 January 2022.] READ MORE

How much of the overall decline in employment between the beginning of 2020 and 2021 can be explained by excess job loss among parents of young children, and mothers specifically? [Jason Furman, [...]

Child-development researchers are investigating whether the pandemic is shaping early brain development and behaviour. [Melinda Wenner Moyer – Nature, 13 January 2022.] READ MORE

Because of the declining birth rate, China may, sooner than expected, enter a period of an aged society with shrinking births, as well as negative population growth. [Qu Xiaobo – China [...]

With even countries like India on a path to population decline, we can expect political shifts, environmental benefits and economic uncertainty – and we can expect it very soon. [John Ibbitson [...]

When one person goes to prison, their entire family goes with them. [Christopher Bates – Orrin G. Hatch Foundation, 14 December 2021.] READ MORE

The number of residents in the Seoul metropolitan region has surpassed 50% of the nation’s total population for the first time ever last year. [Yoon Ja-young – The Korea Times, 2 January [...]

Both private companies and the government must clean up their act if they want to make sure we can’t talk of another lost decade. [Ananya Bhattacharya – Scroll, 27 December 2021.] READ MORE

The results reflect a story of both challenges (often unequally felt across different demographic groups) and extraordinary resilience in the face of the difficulties of the pandemic era. [...]