Mangos or bananas

Some musings on agriculture and demography: Immigration in a Spanish province

How geography and weather influence migration patterns.

20 hrs ago • javiero

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March 2026

Carnival Crazy: Another aspect of Canarian distinctiveness.

Maybe not crazy, but definitely divergent from the rest of Spain in mental health.

Mar 25 • javiero

Another issue with the Mimetic mixing theory of Israeli fertility: Israeli billionaires

Going back to the subject of billionaire fertility, so we can move forward with evaluating the Mimetic mixing theory of Israeli fertility.

Mar 9 • javiero

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February 2026

Another paper (and tweet) claims that 1950s Cuba was "near the top" of Latin America...

And again, I dispute the claim that Cuba was ahead of most of Latin America around the time Castro arrived in power.

Feb 28 • javiero

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A follow-up to my child poverty post: it's worse than I thought.

It's worse than I thought.

Feb 21 • javiero

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Marriages of the parish of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception of Agaete 1614-1925

Well, I haven’t taken any pictures of the town of Agaete (googling them would be cheating), a charming town in the island of Gran Canaria, but I have…

Feb 11 • javiero

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January 2026

UNICEF's Child poverty ranking ranks very poorly

Is it true that 1 in 3 children in Spain live at risk of poverty or social exclusion?

Jan 8 • javiero

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December 2025

Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match: Israeli marriages.

In my last post I examined one measurable aspect of family life in Israel, divorce rates, under the premise that, if the memetic theory of Israeli…

Dec 27, 2025 • javiero

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The memetic theory of Israeli divorce

Divorcing some family outcomes from others?

Dec 22, 2025 • javiero

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Nitpicking the mimetic mixing theory of Israeli fertility

The thing about spending time working with a dataset is the more you work with it, the easier it becomes to extract information from that data.

Dec 18, 2025 • javiero

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The effect of (non-)religiosity on the fertility of an Israeli population. Part 2.

In my last post I analyzed fertility data for Arab Israeli cities and found out that median income impacts Arab Israeli fertility negatively (as…

Dec 5, 2025 • javiero

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November 2025

The dubious effect of religiosity on the fertility of an Israeli population

The mysterious fertility of Trad wives of Umm al-Fahm.

Nov 28, 2025 • javiero

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