Post Tagged with: "Demographics"

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  Stocks & Sex: Revisited

  Do recessions diminish couples’ desire to have children?
   
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  Our Readers Saw This Cool Correlation Two Decades Before Anyone Else

  Stocks and Sex: A Surprising Connection (That We Spotted 20 Years Ago). This indicator has a history.
   
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  Here’s Why Millennials Are Having Fewer Children

  We’ve seen the “fewer children” phenomenon before.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Cuba’s Birth Rate: Bust to Boom?

  It’s easier than ever to raise children in … Cuba!
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Vasectomy Now!

  Survey shows number of vasectomies increased in the US grew during the recent recession.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Birth Rates for Two Groups at Record Low Levels

  A September 16 Bloomberg article says more US millennial women
   
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  [Mood Riffs] More Kids? Chinese Aren’t in the Mood

  China relaxed its one-child policy in hopes that parents would apply to
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Sake Room Celibates

  Japan is facing a huge problem. No, not Godzilla. Not only is its fertility rate
   
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  [Article] Procreation: The Lowest Rate in a Century

  Social mood regulates parents’ optimism about the future and, in turn, whether they should have a baby: “When aggregate feelings of friskiness, daring and confidence wax, people engage in more sexual activity with the aim of having children. When these feelings wane, so does the desire for generating offspring.”
   
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  [Article] Stocks and Sex: A Socionomic View of Demographic Trends

  The fundamental observation of the new science of socionomics is that social mood, which is patterned according to the Wave Principle, is the generator of social action, be it economic, political or cultural. The key insight of socionomics is that the direction of causality between social mood and social action is precisely the opposite of that which is almost universally presumed; the former dictates the character of the latter, not vice versa.