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A Fertility Reckoning

Robin Hanson · 3 Oct 2023 · overcomingbias.com

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  1. Its main causes are tied to deeply held modern values that have been pushing us in this direction for most of this time across most of the world.
  2. the most likely identifiable scenario by which fertility will rise again is via the growth of currently-small insular high-fertility subgroups like the Amish and Orthodox Jews
  3. It seems to me that an attractive robust approach is to have governments pay lots for kids (at no cost or risk to them!) and then let those who respond to these incentives tell us which compromises seem most attractive.