The endless to-do list
I’ve been thinking about that NYTimes article on mother’s labor force participation. The article suggests that the slight recent drop-off in women’s labor force participation in recent years is...
View ArticleStats on parenting and class
Poking around the Census web page today, I ran across this report, issued earlier this year, on A Child’s Day, 2003 (Selected Indicators of Child Well-Being). It’s full of all sorts of odd and...
View ArticleData geek heaven
Via Kameron at Brutal Woman, I found this presentation on how much of what we think we know about "the third world" is wrong. Specifically, it points out how much Asia and, to a lesser degree, South...
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Mothers labor force participation
Here’s something that I pulled together at work, and then wound up cutting from the document I did it for. So I thought I’d share it here. This chart (from the new Indicators of Welfare Dependence...
View ArticleMy father is right
After reading yesterday’s post, my dad emailed me to say that he thought the question of whether young adults are better off than their parents depends mostly on what level of education each generation...
View ArticleHomeownership rates
When I posted about whether young people are "falling behind" their parents, almost all of the commenters agreed that a big part of the reason that even relatively affluent young adults *feel* poor is...
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Composition of the US Labor Force by Marriage and Parenting Status
Here’s what I’ve been working on this week: This is pretty different from the usual way these numbers are presented, which is based on families rather than workers. (Remember, if half of the families...
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graphing the tax plans
Via Bitch PhD and Yglesias, this terrific graph showing the Obama and McCain tax plans and how much they’ll affect different income brackets’ taxes, with the bands scaled to reflect the number of...
View ArticleWBR: Intelligence and How to Get It
As promised, here's a review of Richard Nisbett's Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count. it's the book that Nicholas Kristof's column a couple of weeks ago was based on. The...
View ArticleYou read it here first
You knew this would pull me out of my blog hiatus, right? The Washington Post has a front page story today that highlights the new Census findings that "stay-at-home moms" are typically younger and in...
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