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1/14 To mark Labor Day, @aibm_org has a paper out on working class men.
Bottom line: they are getting the sharpest end of the stick on many fronts. Some findings summarized in the charts below 🧵 aibm.org/research/the-s…
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2/14 Who is most likely to die at work? Working class men: Image
3/14 Who is most likely to die young? Working class men: Image
4/14 Who is most likely to be out of work because of poor health? Working class men: Image
5/14 Who dies at highest rates from Covid? Working class men: Image
6/14 Who is at the highest and fastest-rising risk from "deaths of despair"? Working class men: Image
7/14 Who is dying most from drugs? Working class men: Image
8/14 Which group has seen no wage growth since 1979? Working class men: Image
9/14 Who has seen the sharpest drops in employment? Working class men: Image
10/14 Who is least likely to have health insurance? Working class men: Image
11/14 Who is least likely to marry before 40? Working class men: Image
12/14 Who is least likely to be living with children? Working class men: Image
13/14 Who is most likely to not have a close friend? (@dcoxpolls thank you!). Working class men: Image
14/14 The alarm bells on the wellbeing of working class men of all races have been ringing for a while now. If anything they are louder now. Do check out the whole report, and sign up to our newsletter to stay up to date with @aibm_org's work.
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Nov 19, 2023
1/7 The male suicide rate is 4 times higher than the female rate across age ranges, as we show in a new @aibm_org research brief. There were 40,000 male suicide deaths in 2022, almost as many as from car accidents. This is a crisis.
#InternationalMensDay aibm.org/research/male-…
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2/7 As we note: "If men’s suicide rates had matched those of women, approximately 545,000 fewer men would have died by suicide since 1999, a figure exceeding the populations of major cities like Atlanta or Omaha."
aibm.org/research/male-…
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3/7 The male/female gap in suicide risk is significantly wider than any other disparities eg. veterans/non-veterans, Native/non-native, rural/urban, older/younger aibm.org/research/male-…
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May 1, 2023
1/6 Debating marriage & fatherhood a lot with thoughtful conservatives. One of my key points is that married parents PLAN to become parents together, which I think most people would agree makes all the difference for stability. Rates of unintended births: brookings.edu/research/cohab… Image
2/6 And even within that "unintended" category, there are big differences in whether the birth was unwanted, mistimed by 2+ years, or mistimed by less than 2 years: brookings.edu/research/cohab… Image
3/6 Married parents are also MUCH more educated: brookings.edu/research/cohab… Image
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Dec 14, 2022
1/8 Male NILFs, a 🧵:
Looks like post-pandemic, the previous long-term trend towards increased male non-participation in the labor force is continuing (see chart below from @AEI's Nick Eberstadt). aei.org/research-produ… Image
2/8 And it seems that among prime-age (25-54), men aged 35-44 are returning to work less than other groups, per @jeannasmialek @lydiadepillis @bencasselman nytimes.com/2022/12/02/bus… Image
3/8 It would be nice to think that this is because more men are "leaning out" into childcare roles as part of a reordering of gender roles post-pandemic. But men with young children have seen the fastest recovery, per Stephanie Aaronson @BrookingsInst brookings.edu/research/the-r… Image
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Sep 27, 2022
1/15 Today is official publication day for my book, Of Boys and Men. I'm so grateful to those who have already read & praised the book, including:🧵 amzn.to/3UyK8F3
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Sep 17, 2022
1/4 Here @simonkuper of the @FT thoughtfully reviews my Of Boys and Men, plus the latest from Ijeoma Oluo & Joris Luyendijk. Nice headline. ft.com/content/a24b6b…
2/4 @KuperSimon writes: "Reeves wants men to copy women in spreading their identity across different realms: you got sacked but you’re still a good grandfather". Yes - but I'd say FATHER first, not grandfather!
ft.com/content/a24b6b…
3/4 And this, where I'm influenced by Sapolsky, @JoHenrich @hoovlet. See their books, WEIRDest People amazon.com/dp/B07RZFCPMD/…
and T: Testosterone amazon.com/dp/B08HKX6GWH/…
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Sep 14, 2022
1/7 In a new essay for @TheAtlantic, I argue for starting boys in school a year later than girls. 🧵 theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
2/7 Why? Simply put: To narrow the developmental gap. The maturity gap is now demonstrated conclusively by neuroscience. Brain development just follows a different trajectory for boys than it does for girls. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
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3/7 As Frances Jensen from @Penn puts it: “In adolescence, on average girls are more developed by about two to three years,” Image
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