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Can Men and Women Be Friends? Evidence from 1.3 Trillion Facebook Connections
A phenomenal new paper by Bailey, Johnston, Kuchler, Kumar and Stroebel offers unprecedented insights into gender relations through an extraordinary…
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Why are Chinese Marriages Plummeting?
China’s marriages have hit rock bottom - only 6.1 million weddings in 2024.
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How do Radical Ideas Go Mainstream?
Secrets from 1970s Women's Magazines!!
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Did Iron Age Britain have pockets of Matriliny?
An awesome study just out in Nature may rock your priors!
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Alice Evans

January 2025

The Great Splintering: How Digital Tech Shattered Cultural Control
Fertility is collapsing, measles vaccinations are plummeting, Gen-Z men and women seem to be drifting apart, anti-establishment critics are going viral…
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Why is African Teen Fertility So High?
Teenage pregnancy has plummeted globally – except in sub-Saharan Africa.
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What's the Economic Cost of Wolf-Whistling?
Why is Egypt's female employment rate only 16%?
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Should We End Take-Home Exams?
I have updated my priors.
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The Global Collapse of Coupling & Fertility
Coupling and fertility are falling. In Finland, Mexico, Peru, South Korea, Thailand, Turkey and the US, both metrics point downwards.
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Does Cousin Marriage Motivate Honour-Killings?
In the ancient city of Midyat, southeastern Turkey, I met a young Kurdish woman who lived in fear.
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"2 become 1": Did the Spice Girls Plagiarise Medieval Priests?
“If you wannabe my lover, you gotta get with my friends”.
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Cultural Leapfrogging: Swiping Past Tradition
Happy 2025!
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