Lyman Stone is the Director of Research of the consulting firm Demographic Intelligence, the director of the Pronatalism Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies, and a PhD candidate at McGill University.
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Below-Replacement Fertility Is Not New
We’ve been here before. Definitely in the mid-1300s.
Last week I criticized a recent paper on falling fertility. I focused on the actual model in the paper.
We Actually Know A Lot About Fertility Decline
A recent paper by Jesús Fernández-Villaverde (JFV) makes the claims that fertility decline is “terra incognita,” that low fertility and low/negative population growth is a new phenomenon, that basically none of the candidate explanations fo...
You Should Know About Surveys to Write About Surveys
is a very fun new publication. They’re doing the kind of data-driven journalism that I enjoy reading. One thing I especially enjoy is they often do original surveys to try to settle public questions. I love that. But I have noticed they oft...
Somalians and Christians
I was recently invited to speak to a class at a university in California. After the invitation was sent, they asked me who would be a good interlocutor who might disagree with my views on fertility. I responded:
Then they went looking for...
Two Reasons Why Daycare Isn't the Answer to Low Fertility
Time is the ultimate limit, and expectations reset on social structures.
Imagine, as I have argued elsewhere, that giving someone $1,000 to have babies boosts the average person’s fertility by 0.01 babies; or, to put another way, if you of...
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Lyman Stone is the Director of Research of the consulting firm Demographic Intelligence, the director of the Pronatalism Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies, and has a PhD in Sociology from McGill University
Centre for Family and Education Director. Institute for Family Studies Research Associate. All opinions are my personal views.
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