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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

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 [...]

The findings on greater increases in fathers’ than mothers’ incomes at the time of entering parenthood, as followed by postponement, may help explain why progress in achieving gender equality in [...]

Socioeconomic Status can refer to education, and to what level one can achieve goals, employment, or job prestige. [Sarah Zellner – Moms, 29 October 2022.] READ MORE

Making child care more accessible would lead to more opportunities for women and more economic prosperity for the country. [Cindy Cisneros and Grace Reef – US News, 19 October 2022.] READ MORE

While efforts to introduce a new federal paid family leave program continue to stall in Congress, the number of states that have introduced their own programs climbed to 11 last year. [Joshua [...]

This report exposes the dangers of a post-pandemic austerity shock, far more premature and severe than the one that followed the global financial crisis. [Isabel Ortiz and Matthew Cummings, [...]

In the end, all we have in this life is our time and how we choose to spend it. [Katy MacKinnon Hansell – Forbes, 23 September 2022.] READ MORE

The analysis reveals strongly elevated second birth rates among men and women in the managerial classes, and upward mobility after the first birth is associated with higher second birth rates, [...]

Globally, demographic risks were evident well before the pandemic. Then, COVID-19 took a steep toll on the labor force and altered broader demographic dynamics. [Vaibhav Tandon, Ryan James Boyle [...]