What Lyman Stone thinks about humility

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Demographer. Director of the Pronatalism Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies and a research fellow at Cardus, he writes about fertility, marriage and how family statistics are measured, and argues in public with most other people who work on the subject.

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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Lyman Stone has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 20 Aug 2026

   Our readingCalling the fall in birth rates a mystery is not humility but obscurantism: there is already a good causal account of it.

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   Their wordswe really do have a good causal model of how to think about fertility decline!

   ↗We Actually Know A Lot About Fertility Declinelymanstone.substack.com 1st of 5 in this piece