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Correcting the Maternal Mortality Rate Crisis Narrative
A number of recent articles have been communicating a very concerning crisis with the U.S. maternal mortality rate. DI’s director of research Lyman Stone addresses and corrects these popular apocalyptic narratives. Read the full article to understand how serious errors of interpretation and comparison have driven this false crisis.
American’s Ideal Family Size
Political Polarization Affecting Marriage Prospects
DI’s Chief Information Officer, Lyman Stone, has published an article in The Atlantic discussing the fast-falling U.S. marriage rates. Among the many of reasons for the decline, men and women are seeing political differences be more and more of a factor. Read the full article here.
Fewer Engagement Rings Being Sold This Year
DI’s Lyman Stone is cited in a NY Times article that discusses how aftershocks from the coronavirus pandemic continue to rumble across the U.S. economy. Jewelry retailers Kay Jewelers and Zales are seeing the results of Covid’s disruption of dating three years ago. Read the full article here.
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