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Philip N Cohen
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Sociologist and demographer, University of Maryland; SocArXiv director.

New book: Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists https://cup.columbia.edu/book/citizen-scholar/9780231555418

Website: philipncohen.com
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Philip N. Cohen is an American sociologist. He is a professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and director of SocArXiv, an open archive of the social sciences. .. more

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · Nov 26
I'm about 18 months and 20,000 words into the "pronatalism" tag on Family Inequality. Surely this means my book is almost done.
familyinequality.wordpress.com/tag/pronatal...
word cloud from the blog posts

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 13h
144. In the US, women are much more likely to have a BA or higher education if they had their first child over age 25 -- or if they have had no children.
bar graph showing rates from about 20% to more than 60%

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 14h
TrumpRx is so cool for buying Zepbound without insurance. Instead of going directly to the Eli Lilly site and buying it at their "discount" price, you just go to TrumpRx first, then search it up, then click on the link and go to the Eli Lilly site, where you buy it at the same price. Thanks, Trump!

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 15h
I don't know that he went to grad school. I thought he got a job right out of Michigan undergrad (where I was briefly his editor at the Daily)

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 17h
Good restraint!

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 17h
Hi Bluesky. No offense to "plates_and_tales," but it's possible Vance did not actually bring 14 planes and 100 vehicles with him, as no major news source seems to report this information.
hockeybroad.bsky.social HockeyBroad @hockeybroad.bsky.social · 1d
Not only did they bring a small private army, but among the waste of taxpayer money was BRINGING A FULL PLANE OF FOOD.

To *Italy*.

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 18h
If you haven't had the chance to see The Librarians yet, catch Kim Snyder’s powerful documentary when it premieres February 9 on Independent Lens on PBS.
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/the-librarians/
The Librarians | Book Policies Documentary | Independent Lens
The Librarians follows librarians and citizens responding to restrictions on library content across the United States.
www.pbs.org

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 19h
Are grades supposed to be relative to others at the institution or the world? I had a friend from Harvard (honest!) who said the students were all excellent and deserved A's.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 19h
Check the bathroom at Mar-a-Lago
karenho.bsky.social Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 20h
part of me still can't believe the East Wing was completely destroyed and there have been no negative consequences or reports on whether items inside were properly archived or not

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 20h
part of me still can't believe the East Wing was completely destroyed and there have been no negative consequences or reports on whether items inside were properly archived or not

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Justin Fox @byjustinfox.bsky.social · 23h
The first big wave of immigration to the US from what became Haiti started in the 1790s. Thousands of Americans emigrated *to* Haiti in the 1820s. Sounds like a bunch of Heritage Americans to me. New column, with gift link. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Many Haitian-Americans Are Heritage Americans, Too
The first big wave of immigration to the US from what is now Haiti came in the 1790s, after a 1791 slave revolt in the French colony of Saint-Domingue kicked off years of turmoil. About 10,000 refugee...
www.bloomberg.com

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 1d
Sad news but honestly a good innings for an APC-free, community-led open access journal.
First Monday has never charged --- in its entire history --- article processing charges (APC). First Monday has never subscribed to the notion that the article processing charges (APC) model is a version of open access publishing. First Monday has never leveled subscription fees or charges in its long history. First Monday has never tolerated advertisements in any form on its virtual pages. First Monday is truly openly accessible at all levels and has always been so, from its beginning with its first issue released on 6 May 1996.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d
The authoritarian right has always used the threat of sexual deviance to turn people against modern progress. We benefit from lower birth rates, higher education, and women's independence - and their answer is, you sexual deviants!
familyinequality.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/f...
Factcheck: Conservatives want children, Democrats want sexual deviance
Women enter the labor force, they have fewer children, those children get more education, and the economy benefits. It’s not perfect, but if you’re going to have capitalism it’s b…
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d
... in the cross section both education and liberalism are associated with fewer children. Of course all co-determined presumably
OLS regression coefficients for number of children born Model 1 Political views Not liberal Liberal Age 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 Education less than high school high school associate/junior college bachelor's graduate Region northeast midwest south west Place size Large city area Medium city area Smaller than medium Year 2021 2022 2024 -0.756 *** 0.698 *** 1.003 *** 1.284*** - :: - :: :: ::: .178 * .139 Intercept Number of observations Adjusted R-squared 1.117 *** 1867 0.14 ** px.01, *p<.05 2021-2024 General Social Survey, women ages 25-44. Model 2 -0.516 ** -- 0.693 ** 1.063 ** 1.351 ** -- -0.667 ** -1.002 ** -1.452 ** -1.380 ** -- 0.487 ** 0.274** 0.322** - 0.071 0.220* 0.199* 0.162* 1.557 ** 1865 0.23

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d
Unsurprisingly, the trend for education looks very similar, with a widening liberal advantage, but...
Proportion of US women with a BA degree, by birth cohort, age, and political views PN Cohen anaysis of General Social Survey.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d
Got a little lost there for a bit, but they have a reassuring tendency in that magazine, however much they circle around a point, to end up at the conclusion that what we really need is "a just society." Can't argue against it.

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HockeyBroad @hockeybroad.bsky.social · 1d
Not only did they bring a small private army, but among the waste of taxpayer money was BRINGING A FULL PLANE OF FOOD.

To *Italy*.
J.D. Vance and his family are attending the Winter Olympics in Milan with an exceptionally large security and logistics operation. Their entourage includes a fleet of 14 aircraft and a motorcade of 100 vehicles navigating tightly secured streets. Eleven of the planes are carrying his delegation, staff, former athletes, and security personnel, while one aircraft is dedicated solely to food supplies. Two additional planes transported armored vehicles across the Atlantic.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d
wow, I think "birth are become more political polarized" is the most errors I ever published in a six-word sequence.
philipncohen.com Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d
"Factcheck [of Lyman Stone]: Conservatives want children, Democrats want sexual deviance."

It is true that birth are become more political polarized.

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graph: US women's births by cohort, age, and political views

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d
Yikes, it was 6 years ago Lyman invited me to be on a panel he organized at AEI about falling birth rates. Forgot about that.
L-r: eberstadt, cohen, stone, ?

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d
Did they not offer "increasing immigration" as an option?
opiniontoday.bsky.social Opinion Today @opiniontoday.bsky.social · 2d
A majority of Americans say lowering prices should be a higher priority than controlling immigration — NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/260205-top...

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d
It’s not perfect, but it’s better than low labor force participation, high birth rates, low education, and a stagnant economy — run by a patriarchal hierarchy that rams “traditionalism” down the throats of its disempowered subjects, partly by scaring them about sexual deviance and low birth rates
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d
But the real point is that, just as these various outcomes are co-determined across the lives of individuals, they also unfold together within societies. Women enter the labor force, they have fewer children, those children get more education, and the economy benefits...
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d
For what it's worth, here's a regression using GSS data to show that education has a bigger effect on births for women than political views:
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regression table

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d
You shouldn't treat political views as a fixed cause of births, which he knows. So he comes up with stuff like this to assert this imagined process of alignment, "you can find tons of Obama-Trump voters: and they tend to be Obama voters with kids"
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"In the 21st century, the parties are realigning on fertility. You can find tons of Bush voters who are also Biden voters: and you can predict the switch by identifying Bush voters with unusually low numbers of children. Likewise, you can find tons of Obama-Trump voters: and they tend to be Obama voters with kids (at least among whites)."