We discuss the idea that a "shortage of marriageable men" seems like a strong explanation of falling marriage rates.
demography
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An interview with Alexis Santos (Penn State Health and Human Development), one of the researchers who questioned official death counts of Puerto Rico fatalities resulting from Hurricane Maria. Santos’ and similar analyses led to important questions about the adequacy of government responses to the hurricane. We also discuss the Tree […]
An interview with Alexis Santos (Penn State Health and Human Development), one of the researchers who questioned official death counts of Puerto Rico fatalities resulting from Hurricane Maria. Santos’ and similar analyses led to important questions about the adequacy of government responses to the hurricane.
Joe, Leslie, Gabriel, and Conrad Hackett of the Pew Research Center discuss researchers’ efforts to reassess official counts of how many people died after Hurricane Maria.
This week, the gang sits down with Conrad Hackett from the Pew Research Center. Conrad recently authored The Future of World Religions: Population Growth Projections, 2010-2050, a report on changes to the religious composition of the world’s countries. We also discuss Twitter fame, the Puerto Rico hurricane death count, and careers […]
Joe, Leslie and Gabriel interview Conrad Hackett from the Pew Research Center about The Future of World Religions: Population Growth Projections, 2010-2050, a report that predicts and discusses future changes in the religious composition of the world’s population.
In episode 23 of The Annex, we meet Neda Maghbouleh from the University of Toronto. Neda is the author of The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race with Stanford University Press. We also talk about the Oscars ratings dive and Pew’s recent efforts to refine “generations” theory. Neda […]
We discuss “generations theories”, which postulate that massive cohorts of 10 – 20 years have relevant, predictive shared traits.
