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Jul 18, 2024 | 
ifstudies.org | Laurie DeRose
A study published in the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities earlier this year showed that in couples with only one White partner, both partners are more likely to suffer from chronic health conditions. The authors, Patricia Louie, Hana Brown, Ryon Cobb, and Connor Sheehan, established the health risk associated with interracial partnerships involving Whites through a series of comparisons that I will walk you through here.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
ifstudies.org | Laurie DeRose
If you turn off Illinois State Route 14 to get to where my cousin grows corn and soy, you drive through a solar farm before you get to the homeplace. It isn’t hard to understand why even glacier-flattened farmland is used to produce electricity rather than crops when you glance at estimated returns here and .
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
ifstudies.org | Laurie DeRose |Lyman Stone |Erin Wingerter |Dixie Dillon Lane
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
ifstudies.org | Laurie DeRose
I developed a course in Families and Incarceration for the Catholic University of America in the fall of 2021. The literature on the collateral consequences of the prison boom had come to include enough on spillover from prison into family life to engage college students for more than a semester. I believe mine was the second such course offered to US college students, and I stood on the shoulders of giant Anna Haskins to create it.
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May 1, 2024 | 
ifstudies.org | Laurie DeRose
Motherhood doesn’t cost women as much with respect to future earnings as it used to, according to new research on the motherhood wage penalty from Wei-hsin Yu and Janet Chen-Lan Kuo. However, not all their new evidence will delight champions of equity: they also document growing class inequality as well as persistent gender differences when it comes to parenthood and wages.
Let’s start with growing class inequality. On average, fairly rapidly in recent decades.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
ifstudies.org | Lyman Stone |Laurie DeRose
At the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development, a new global consensus formed around the idea that enhancing women’s individual health and rights was a more noble goal than controlling population growth. This then-new emphasis on reproductive autonomy had real life implications, e.g., the Indian Family Welfare Programme service stopped issuing its workers targets for contraceptive uptake.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
ifstudies.org | Laurie DeRose
Karen Guzzo and Sarah Hayford’s recent research note debunks the overly simplistic idea that people with more education have fewer children because they want fewer children. Here, I describe their evidence in the context of other important indicators that show there is no simple negative relationship between education and childbearing.
First, it is not the most educated women who have the fewest children.
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
ifstudies.org | Laurie DeRose
“Melissa S. Kearney looks hard at the data but doesn’t dare to imagine new possibilities for societal structure.” That was the subhead of Becca Rothfeld’s Washington Post review of Kearney's new book, The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind. Rothfeld portrays Kearney as unimaginative economist who fails to acknowledge and interrogate her controversial assumptions.
Just what assumptions are those?
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Jul 27, 2023 | 
ifstudies.org | Laurie DeRose
In May, Livia Sz. Oláh, Rudolf Richter, and Irena E. Kotowska compiled six articles published in Demographic Research between November 2017 and April 2019 into a “Special Collection on the new roles of women and men and implications for families and societies.”1 Theirs was not simply an editorial task: the authors also introduced the collection with a brilliant synthesis of an important body of work.
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Jul 17, 2023 | 
mercatornet.com | Laurie DeRose |David Hoinski |Rudolph Lambert Fernandez |Samuel Gregg
If you asked me if my parents passed on their affiliations to me, my answer would be a simple “no.” But in pondering Cooperman’s findings, I’ve realised it isn’t quite that simple. Surveys translate complex realities into simple questions. My dad believes in God and even prays, but he has no religious affiliation. I’ve even described him as worshipping at the altar of small government because among Republican core values, that’s his highest value.
