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Paying parents large sums of cash directly is the pronatal policy most likely to work, because every indirect policy has to guess what the real obstacle is.

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housing What a place to live costs and why: how much gets built, zoning, and who is blamed for the price.

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  1. Robin Hanson

    Associate professor of economics at George Mason University

    Similarly, most recent discussions of how to promote fertility discuss how we might promote housing, inequality, schooling, day-care, etc., but few consider directly paying parents big amounts to have kids. As indirect approaches require us to guess what are the actual main obstacles to fertility, they are more likely to fail.

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