Demographics

New research shows that current boyfriends or girlfriends are more likely than spouses to engage in certain types of violent behavior.

• By Tom Jacobs

A new study assesses the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences in America by state, race or ethnicity, and income level.

• By Mimi Kirk

New research finds overestimation of the homosexual population is linked with lower support for gay rights.

• By Tom Jacobs

Why China changed its one-child policy—and why it did so too late to help its rapidly graying population.

• By Mei Fong

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

• By Gary Segura

In 2006, the digital economy underwent a dramatic transformation that changed the map of talent migration.

• By Jim Russell

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

• By Roger W. Ferguson Jr.

Communities might roll out the red carpet for the foreign-born, but the more welcoming disposition doesn't do the trick.

• By Jim Russell

A shrinking population isn't the end of economic expansion.

• By Jim Russell

Winning the demographic lottery is nothing to crow about.

• By Jim Russell

New data from multiracial Americans suggests that race is more fluid than ever in the U.S.

• By Jared Keller

Half of the world lives in a country where the number of births fails to replace those who die.

• By Jim Russell

Attract one person and an entire village will follow.

• By Jim Russell

In a global era of demographic decline, the quality of employment trumps the number of jobs.

• By Jim Russell

The international market for U.S. real estate looks nothing like the domestic market for U.S. real estate.

• By Jim Russell

Matt Yglesias, despite Vox's commitment to deliver "crucial context alongside new information," passes along tired geographic stereotypes.

• By Jim Russell

We continue to confuse population change with net domestic migration. Over the last 20 years, the U.S. has become increasingly rural even as many of its cities have grown.

• By Jim Russell

Brooklyn is the land where myths become geographic fact, at least when it comes to the New York Post.

• By Jim Russell

What can we learn, if anything, from the drop in median household income in New York City's most populous borough?

• By Jim Russell

Another example of how population growth is outdated as an important economic metric.

• By Jim Russell

Demographic decline is shrinking the pool of applicants for all but a handful of global superbrands, 80 percent of which are located in the United States.

• By Jim Russell

Population growth isn't what it used to be, at least in developed countries.

• By Jim Russell

Concerns about population growth and decline are artifacts of the 19th century and the industrial revolution. For them to make any sense today, we need to look at the numbers in a much different way.

• By Jim Russell

Just because a net migration number is negative doesn't mean there is brain drain. A shrinking population doesn't always indicate a dying place.

• By Jim Russell