Research
A call to action: the second Lancet Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing (The Lancet)
Ageing populations, their fiscal implications and policy responses (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
An Economic Analysis of Fertility (Columbia University and National Bureau of Economic Research)
Are US Industries Becoming More Concentrated? (Review of Finance)
Average undergraduate tuition, fees, room, and board rates charged for full-time students in degree-granting postsecondary institutions, by level and control of institution: Selected academic years, 1963-64 through 2023-24 (2024 Digest of Education Statistics, National Center for Education Statistics)
Build, Baby, Build: How Housing Shapes Fertility (University of Toronto Department of Economics) (also see accompanying press release)
Children a Key Factor in Women's Desire to Work Outside the Home (Gallup)
Current Causes of Death among Children and Adolescents in the United States (The New England Journal of Medicine)
Do more get more: Monopoly appropriation of labor income in manufacturing companies (Frontiers in Environmental Science)
Dying Young in the United States: What's Driving High Death Rates Among Americans Under Age 25 and What Can Be Done? (Population Bulletin)
Economic inequalities in adolescents' internalising symptoms: longitudinal evidence from eight countries (The Lancet)
Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2025 (U.S. Federal Reserve)
Expenditures on Children by Families, 2015 (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Fertility, employment and family policy: A crosscountry panel analysis (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
From Gerontocracy to Gerontonomia: The Politics of Economic Stagnation in Ageing Democracies (The Political Quarterly)
G20 background note on the implications of aging and migration on growth and productivity (International Monetary Fund)
Generation Inequality in an Aging Society: The Demographic Welfare Dilemma (Social & Policy Administration)
High and Rising Mortality Rates Among Working-Age Adults (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine)
Home Prices Surge to Five Times Median Income, Nearing Historic Highs (Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University)
Housing and Inequality (Journal of Economic Literature)
How popularising higher education affects economic growth and poverty alleviation: empirical evidence from 38 countries (Humanities and Social Sciences Communications)
In 38 countries, women can still be fired for being pregnant (World Bank)
Inflation, Housing Affordability, and the Reshaping of Young Adult Independence (Michigan Journal of Economics)
Mortality Trends Among Early Adults in the United States, 1999-2023 (Journal of the American Medical Association Network)
OECD Employment Outlook 2025, Chapter 2: Setting the scene: Demographic change, economic growth and intergenerational inequalities (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
Perfectionism Is Accelerating Over Time: A Cross-Temporal Meta-Analytic Review of 35 Years of College Student Data (Psychological Bulletin) (also see accompanying press release from the American Psychological Association:
Young adults are more perfectionistic than ever before: Rising inequality, slowing economic growth fuel rise in perfectionism, study finds)
Raising Kids and Running a Household: How Working Parents Share the Load (Pew Research Center)
Social determinants of financial stress and association with psychological distress among young adults 18-26 years in the United States (Frontiers in Public Health)
Social Determinants of Health Literature Summaries: Employment (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
Society at a Glance 2024 (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
Socioeconomic differences and global trends in youth wellbeing and emotional distress in 165 countries and territories (Health & Place)
Student Debt and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among U.S. Adults in Early Mid-Life (American Journal of Preventative Medicine)
Talent Disrupted: College Graduates, Underemployment, and the Way Forward (The Burning Glass Institute)
The Aging Democracy: Demographic Effects, Political Legitimacy, and the Quest for Generational Pluralism (Perspectives on Politics)
The Changing Economics and Demographics of Young Adulthood: 1975-2016 (U.S. Census Bureau)
The declining mental health of the young and the global disappearance of the unhappiness hump shape in age (PLoS One)
The Economic Value of College Majors (Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce)
The Economics of Fertility: A New Era (National Bureau of Economic Research)
The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population (American Economic Review)
The fiscal impact of population ageing: How can we afford getting older? (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
The generation gap in direct democracy: Age vs. cohort effects (European Journal of Political Economy)
The generational health drift: A systematic review of evidence from the British birth cohort studies (Population Studies)
The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey: Selected Findings from Waves 1 to 23 (Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne)
The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on youth mental health (The Lancet Psychiatry Commissions)
The New Crisis of Increasing All-Cause Mortality in US Children and Adolescents (Journal of the American Medical Association)
The Real Fertility Crisis: The pursuit of reproductive agency in a changing world (State of World Population 2025, United Nations Population Fund)
The State of the Nation's Housing 2025 (Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University)
Trends in Multiple Chronic Conditions Among US Adults, By Life Stage, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2013-2023 (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
World Fertility 2024 (United Nations)
When Houses Outrun Paychecks: The Lost Decades of Housing Affordability (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
Where Do Rich Countries Stand on Childcare? (United Nation's Children's Fund)