The effect of the Great Blackout of 1965 on births in New York City

The New York City blackout of 1965 was not followed by a baby boom nine months later. https://t.co/RBKR6zuLuS

Advanced cocktail party topic: What's your "favourite" "fact" that's not actually true? Mine's "9 months after the NYC blackout, more babies were born". See https://t.co/oWRupk1Ule

@RMCarpiano Could you publish a null result like this now?! https://t.co/60MXdMue3R

@fakehistoryhunt 9 months after the NYC power outage of 1965, more babies than usual were born in NYC. https://t.co/oWRupk1mvG

RT @thehauer: I covered Udry's 1970 NYC Blackout fertility paper in my undergrad class today. It is absolutely one of my favorite Demograph…

I covered Udry's 1970 NYC Blackout fertility paper in my undergrad class today. It is absolutely one of my favorite Demography reads. The 2 pages, 1 figure, 1 sentence abstract (!!!) are just *chef's kiss*. I absolutely aspire to that level of brevity. (ht

@Anthonysmdoyle That actually doesn't tend to be the case statistically! https://t.co/nUhu9axgTE is one famous paper on the topic, but yeah.

RT @d_alburez: @stuartbasten The concluding sentence is equally unique: "It is evidently pleasing to many people to fantasy that when peopl…

@stuartbasten The concluding sentence is equally unique: "It is evidently pleasing to many people to fantasy that when people are trapped by some immobilizing event which deprives them of their usual activities, most will turn to copulation." 😂 https://t.c

Per my friend @AppDemography on this classic article, and my previous discussion: #fertility #demography #poptwitter #COVID19 https://t.co/eUzJetU08t https://t.co/X4hQlUBU1t

@PaulTPWong @sTeamTraen https://t.co/h4hMcugSmm

@EmmMacfarlane Tales of post-disaster baby booms are largely B.S. In 1970, a researcher examined birth stats following a 1965 blackout in New York City + found zero evidence of a baby boom (despite media claims) - https://t.co/6jhpoWo3nk Also: https://t

Wie unromantisch: https://t.co/v32XXH2VQm bzw. https://t.co/xtwQbju15v Vgl. https://t.co/luzt0FRTew

JSTOR: Demography, Vol. 7, No. 3 (Aug., 1970), pp. 325-327... (http://t.co/Xkiv0wwl4H)