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Marripedia
An online social science encyclopedia that synthesizes and translates the work of social scientists into concise, issue-specific entries that are intelligible to the lay reader.
Family Demographics
Trendline data drawn from original federal surveys on behaviors related to the American family.
How Society Works Blog
MARRI’s blog discusses current events in light of recent and robust social science research.
MARRI’s Library
A large repository of analytic and synthesis research on all matters related to marriage, religion, family, and sexuality.
Speeches & Powerpoints
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Latest Blogs
March 22, 2020
“Duking Out” the Future of Our Children in the Data
The Problem We have a very serious problem in the public health scientific community. Its...
March 7, 2020
Fertility Rates Are Dropping Dangerously Worldwide
In 1996, five years before he received the Nobel Prize in economics, George Akerlof in...
March 1, 2020
An Embarrassing Truth
A few years ago, in Budapest, I delivered a paper at a major conference convened...
February 15, 2020
Chastity at Harvard, Catholic or Baltimore Community College©
For college presidents and their students, decadence is the societal context in which the grand...
February 3, 2020
Live Below Your Means
In the late 1970’s there was a dinner in Washington DC, attended exclusively by psychotherapists...
January 25, 2020
Building Patterns That Work: Festivals, Thanks and Taboos
The breakdown in cultures worldwide stems from two phenomena: the technological fruits of science and...