Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.
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This dumb phones-cause-fertility-decline theory is a kind of economics research I dislike. It's just like Melissa Kearney's old thing about 16 and Pregnant causing a decline in teen births. A reasonable hypothesis would be, "Birth rates are falling because fewer people are dating and marrying," ...
the export thing hit us in the EU noticeably. More or less entirely stopped buying records, books from the UK. This must have been terrible to smaller outlets (sorry, Boomkat!)
The “collapse” of the “AMOC” circulation (a confusing term first used in the 2000s) has become a source of confusion and hype for years.
This is a good overview of the science, without hype, and shows that it may far more resilient than some say.
An important read.
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Philip N Cohen
Ugh. Not good reporting about unrefereed preprints. Sabrina Tavernese at NYT says two studies were "published," one of which was "published in the National Bureau of Economic Research" (not a journal) the other is on SSRN (not identified).
also extending this just like so to other countries, yeah, nope. In Finland iPhones were available from summer 2008. 2010 saw a small fertility rate peak, then going into decline.
Even got close to buying a whole new computer because of this, and it was all just because of the outdated Ethernet switch, somehow?
Jonatan Hildén
Dr. Jonathan Foley
Jonatan Hildén
Jonatan Hildén
Another elderly neighbour had the same problem! Couldn’t fix it for them, since their wifi base station was too ancient, but the problem was located at least. Thinking there should be something like a ”clever computer nephew/niece as a service”, because not everyone has those?
Spent some time gardening with an European robin nearby today. Funny birds, like their acceptable social distance to people is maybe just a fifth of that of wagtails or blackbirds. Almost within arm’s reach.
