Tag: Demography
China’s new condom tax will prove no effective barrier to country’s...
Dudley L. Poston Jr., Texas A&M University
Once the world’s most populous nation, China is now among the many...
Misunderstood Malthus: The English thinker whose name is synonymous with doom...
Roy Scranton, University of Notre Dame
No one uses “Malthusian” as a compliment. Since 1798, when the economist and...
Unpacking Florida’s immigration trends − demographers take a closer look at...
Matt Brooks, Florida State University and Karin Brewster, Florida State University
Immigration has dominated recent public discourse about Florida,...
70 years after Brown vs. Board of Education, public schools still...
Erica Frankenberg, Penn State
Brown vs. Board of Education, the pivotal Supreme Court decision that made school segregation unconstitutional,...
Why China’s shrinking population is a big deal – counting the...
Feng Wang, University of California, Irvine
Throughout much of recorded human history, China has boasted the largest population in...
US birth rates are at record lows – even though the...
Sarah Hayford, The Ohio State University and Karen Benjamin Guzzo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Birth rates...
Old age isn’t a modern phenomenon – many people lived long...
Sharon DeWitte, University of South Carolina
Every year I ask the college students in the course I teach about...
The maximum human life span will likely increase this century, but...
Michael Pearce, University of Washington and Adrian Raftery, University of Washington
When Jeanne Calment of France died in 1997...
EXPLORING NATURE
The battle over a global energy transition is on between petro-states...
Jennifer Morgan, Tufts University
Two years ago, countries around the world set a goal of “transitioning away from fossil...
